ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Syria on Tuesday strongly condemned Jordanian airstrikes carried out in Daraa province, which killed seven civilians, denying Amman’s allegation that the operation was coordinated with Damascus.

Late Monday, footage circulating on social media showed a large explosion in Syria’s southern Daraa province, and Jordan later claimed responsibility for the attack.

As a result of the attack, seven civilians, including women and children, were killed, while another three civilians were injured, the Daraa health directorate said Tuesday. Syria also closed its main border crossing with Jordan, suspending passenger and commercial traffic.

The Syrian foreign ministry expressed its “strongest condemnation and rejection” of the Jordanian strikes, it said in a statement, describing the attack as an “unacceptable violation and incursion into Syrian airspace without any prior coordination.”

On Friday, assailants stormed a Greek Orthodox church in Hammoud village in Jordan’s Karak during a funeral procession, killing nine people and wounding dozens. Jordanian authorities said that they had arrested three suspects in connection with the attack after finding them hiding in an abandoned house in Karak.

Following the incident, the Jordanian military said Monday that it carried out airstrikes in southern Syria, in coordination with the authorities in Damascus, targeting "terrorist organizations" in retaliation for an attack on a church in Karak.

Damascus affirmed that “this field action is completely unacceptable and cannot be tolerated under any pretext,” the foreign ministry said.

The ministry also expressed its conviction that “suspicious parties” are striving to disrupt relations between the two countries.

According to the statement, Syria and Jordan are coordinating “to form an urgent joint field and security committee” to put an end to “violations and transgressions on the ground and prevent their recurrence.”