News - Middle East: Syria has condemned in the strongest terms Israel’s overnight airstrikes on several points on the outskirts of the capital Damascus.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said by attacking the Syrian territory Israel has displayed a desperate attempt to cover up its abject failures in the Gaza Strip.
“The Zionist entity committed a new act of aggression against Syria this morning in the hope that it can mask failure to achieve any of its declared objectives in the Palestinian enclave, resist facing realities and spark off a regional crisis,” the ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
It added, “Israel does not really understand that massacre of Palestinian children and deprivation of Palestinians of water, food and medicine will only cement the nation’s resilience in the Gaza Strip and across the West Bank.”
The Syrian foreign ministry went on to describe Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territories as the main reason behind the ongoing Gaza conflict, stressing that certain Western governments are complicit in Israel’s genocidal war and provide the regime’s authorities with impunity.