ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - A war monitor late on Wednesday reported that Israeli airstrikes targeted military installations belonging to the former Damascus regime in the Latakia and Tartus provinces.
"Israeli warplanes launched air strikes" targeting "military sites" including "the Latakia port" as well as warehouses in neighboring Tartus province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.
It added that "Israeli warplanes continue to destroy what remains of Syria's military arsenal for the fourth consecutive day since the fall of the former regime”.
Since the collapse of the Assad regime, Israel has stepped up its military activities in Syria destroying the former Damascus regime’s military installations.
The SOHR said it had documented more than 350 airstrikes "carried out by Israeli fighter jets in 13 Syrian provinces" since Sunday.
Regional countries, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and Qatar, on Tuesday joined arms in condemning Israel’s military activities inside Syria, as well as the seizure of a UN-patrolled buffer zone in the Golan Heights after Tel Aviv sent troops into the zone following Assad’s downfall.
The UN special envoy for Syria also called on the Israeli government to end its military movements and bombardments inside Syria.
Anti-government groups spearheaded by the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) on Sunday took over the Syrian capital city of Damascus, after nearly a two-week offensive, sending Assad fleeing and ending over two decades of his rule and half a century of the Baath party rule in the country.
Soon after the fall of Assad, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the collapse of the Damascus regime as a “historic day for the Middle East” while cautioning that that regime’s downfall is “fraught with significant dangers.”