Israeli naval missile ships destroyed the Syrian navy last night in an operation that is part of a more wide-ranging campaign to eliminate strategic threats to Israel, Defense Minister Israel Katz said today, quoted by Reuters, writes BTA.
During a visit to a naval base in the city of Haifa, Katz said Israeli forces had deployed to the buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and that he had ordered a “sterile defense zone” in southern Syria. without a permanent Israeli presence to prevent any terrorist threat to Israel.
Katz also warned the new leadership of Syria “not to follow the path of Assad”, reported France Press.