Israeli forces raided a former air defence base in southern Syria on Wednesday during a series of airstrikes in the area – their farthermost such operation inside Syria since Bashar al-Assad was ousted last December.
The site, near the city of al-Kiswah, about 6 miles (10km) south of Damascus, was a strategic base for Iranian militias during Assad’s rule.
Syrian state media reported that the Israeli military had carried out strikes in the same area a day earlier, killing six Syrian troops who had found Israeli listening and spying devices there. The troops were in the process of dismantling the devices when they were killed, state media said.
It’s just wild that Israel is permanently allowed to attack all of the nations in the region with both military and terroristic operations, without any meaningful pushback from the international community. It’s almost as outrageous as the fact that they’re allowed to also permanently occupy, oppress, torture, murder, displace, imprison, and genocide an entire population without any meaningful opposition from the international community.
What’s potentially more scary is that they garner this defeatism about human rights by way of the United States, so what does that mean for when America does the same thing? Obviously, American imperialism has a long violent history, but its wars have never specifically targeted women, children, aid workers, and journalists. If they did though, apparently they’d all be just as silent as they have been for our extension in the middle east.
