DAMASCUS: Israel carried out a recent strike in Syria on Saturday (Aug 22) and lambasted United States envoy Tom Barrack for criticising an earlier assault on an air base within the northwest, which Israel has accused Türkiye of in search of to make use of.
US envoy for Syria Tom Barrack on Tuesday slammed Israel’s attack on the disused military air base that day as an “pointless escalation that doesn’t advance regional stability”.
On Friday, in an interview with influencer Mario Nawfal, Barrack mentioned the strike might have been supposed to impress a battle with Türkiye, prompting Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz to hit again on Saturday, calling the remarks “stuffed with inaccuracies”.
For the reason that December 2024 overthrow of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad, Israel has carried out a whole lot of strikes in Syria and has despatched troops right into a United Nations-patrolled buffer zone that for many years had separated Israeli and Syrian forces within the Golan Heights.
Katz wrote on X on Saturday that Israel had handed on “intelligence info to the authorised events in the USA” earlier than the strike on Tuesday.
He added that Barrack’s feedback had been “stuffed with inaccuracies and positions that contradict the stance of US President (Donald) Trump himself concerning the Golan Heights”, after Barrack referred to as the territory “occupied”.
Israel captured a lot of the Golan Heights from Syria within the 1967 Arab-Israeli Struggle and later annexed the areas underneath its management, a transfer solely recognised by the USA and, this month, additionally Colombia.
