An Israeli strike killed a man in southern Syria, state media reported Tuesday, with Damascus condemning the attack as a “flagrant violation” of international law.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since an Islamist-led alliance toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December.
It has also opened talks with the interim authorities in Damascus.
“A young man was killed in an Israeli strike on a home in the village of Taranja”, on the formerly Syria-controlled side of the armistice line on the Golan Heights, the official SANA news agency reported.
Syria condemned “the recent Israeli attacks on its territory, which resulted in the martyrdom of a young man”, the foreign ministry said.
It also condemned the Israeli forces’ incursion into a town in the Quneitra countryside, their “arrest campaigns against civilians”, and their “announcement of the continuation of their illegal presence on the summit of Mount Hermon and the buffer zone”.
“These aggressive practices constitute a flagrant violation of the UN Charter, international law, and relevant Security Council resolutions, and constitute a direct threat to peace and security in the region”.
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it had carried out “several activities last week in southern Syria to locate weapons and apprehend suspects”.
The Saudi foreign ministry said the Israeli attacks were a “flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the sisterly Syrian Arab Republic and international law”.
The Qatari foreign ministry called on “the international community to take decisive action against the Israeli occupation and compel it to halt its repeated attacks on Syrian territory”.
Since Assad’s overthrow, Israel has occupied much of a UN-patrolled demilitarised zone on the formerly Syria-controlled side of the armistice line, including the summit of Mount Hermon, the region’s highest peak.
Last week, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani met Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer in Paris to push for a return to the arrangements that had been in place since a 1974 disengagement agreement.
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