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.jpg) Lebanese President Michel Sleiman has condemned Israel’s recent act of aggression against Syria.
A statement released by Lebanon’s presidential office on Sunday read, “Sleiman strongly condemned Israel’s aggression on Syrian sites [which it carried out] by violating Lebanese airspace to carry out these attacks.”
“This act is not unusual for a mutual enemy [such as Israel] whose policy is based on aggression that takes advantage of the circumstances Syria is going through to carry out its aggression just as it used to do in Lebanon during its days of crisis.”
On Sunday, Syria said the Israeli regime had carried out an airstrike targeting a research center in a suburb of Damascus, following heavy losses of Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups at the hands of the Syrian army. According to Syrian media reports, Israeli rockets struck the Jamraya research center.
Meanwhile, Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati vehemently condemned the Israeli airstrike, saying they “underscored once again Israel’s aggressive intentions.”
“[The attacks] fall within the series of continuous aerial violations to Lebanon’s sovereignty and its threats against Lebanon,” Miqati stated.
Syria’s Foreign Ministry has sent letters to the United Nations and its Security Council stating that Israel’s aggression shows the links between Tel Aviv and terrorist groups operating in Syria including the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.
Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoabi told reporters in Damascus on Sunday that Syria had the right and the duty to defend its people by all available means and it would not give in to Israeli acts of aggression.
The Israeli attacks on Syria have made the Middle East more dangerous, the Syrian information minister said.
The Sunday Israeli aggression was Tel Aviv’s second strike on Syria in three days.
The Jamraya facility was also targeted in an Israeli airstrike in January.
(Source: Press TV)
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