Israeli opposition leader decries attacks on Syrian capital as ‘relentless behaviour’

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on Thursday denounced Israeli airstrikes on the Syrian capital, Damascus, as “reckless behavior,” Anadolu reports. “Attacking the Presidential Palace in Damascus undermines the (Syrian) regime and doesn’t serve our strategic goals,” Yair Lapid told Israel’s public broadcaster KAN. “It is a reckless behavior. The Middle East follows it and realizes that we believe laws do not apply to us,” he said. Lapid expressed his disapproval of endangering the Syrian state “under the efforts made by the United States and Europe to achieve stability there.” At least three people were killed and dozens injured in a series of Israeli attacks in Damascus on Wednesday. Tel Aviv claims that the attacks aim to protect the Druze community in […]