Foreign Ministry: Israeli repeated attacks on Syrian civilian airports pose a threat to peace in the world

DAMASCUS, Nov.27, (ST)- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has stressed that the repeated Israeli attacks on Syrian civilian airports pose a threat to peace and security in the region and the world, calling on the United Nations, the Security Council and its other competent bodies to assume their responsibilities in condemning and stopping these attacks and ensuring that they will not be repeated.

It said in a statement issued on Monday: “At around 4:50 p.m. yesterday, the Israeli occupation forces launched a missile attack from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan on Damascus International Airport and some areas in the Damascus countryside, which led to putting the airport out of service once again, only hours after it was resumed its work, and disrupting the humanitarian work of the United Nations by stopping its humanitarian air services in Syria.”

The statement added: “This cowardly Israeli aggression, which targeted a Syrian civilian facility, whose primary goal is to serve citizens whose circumstances force them, as it is the case in all parts of the world, to travel outside their countries, comes in connection with the brutal aggression against Gaza Strip, which is considered a war crime and a crime against humanity. Moreover, these repeated attacks on Syrian civilian airports pose a threat to peace and security in the region and the world, and a flagrant violation of the 1974 Agreement on Disengagement of Forces and UN Security Council resolutions, including Resolutions  242, 338, and 497.”

The ministry underscored that this hysterical aggression comes within the framework of the crisis-ridden occupation authorities’ efforts to escalate the situation in the region and to continue the policy of escaping forward to cover up its crimes, defeats, and failure to achieve the goals it announced for its brutal aggression against Gaza. The ministry pointed out that the Israeli enemy carried out the aggression on Damascus airport while it is still committing the most horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity and a war of genocide in Gaza Strip, a war that targeted civilians, residential areas, hospitals, schools, and places of worship, which led to the loss of the lives of more than 14,500 Palestinian civilians, most of them children and women. The aggression on Gaza also led to the killing of 103 UNRWA crews and dozens of other humanitarian and relief workers, in addition to dozens of journalists and media professionals who documented the crimes of the Zionist entity and highlighted its brutal reality before the United Nations, the Security Council and world public opinion, the ministry clarified.

The Foreign Ministry called on the United Nations, the Security Council, and its other competent bodies to assume their responsibilities in condemning and stopping these attacks, ensuring that they will not be repeated, and curbing the Israeli aggression and killing crimes, stressing the need to put the relevant UN resolutions into practice in a way that ensures an end to the occupation and  halts  Israel’s crimes against the people of Arab lands, occupied Palestine, the Syrian Golan and South Lebanon.

The ministry concluded by saying: “Syria warns the Israeli entity of the consequences of these attacks on Syria, Palestine, and South Lebanon. This entity will see that it will pay the price for its foolishness and recklessness.”

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