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Syria slams deadly Jordan strikes as ‘unacceptable’ breach of airspace
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Syria has condemned in the strongest terms Jordanian airstrikes on its southern provinces, describing them as an unacceptable violation of its airspace and sovereignty. Damascus says the strikes killed seven civilians, while Amman has expressed regret over civilian casualties and stressed its commitment to ties with Syria.
Syria on Tuesday expressed "condemnation and rejection, in the strongest terms" over Jordanian strikes on southern Syria in response to a deadly church attack in Jordan.
In a Syrian foreign ministry statement released a day after the Jordanian strikes, Syria said they were "an unacceptable violation and breach of Syrian airspace without any prior coordination". It also said the attack was "a blatant violation of the principles of good-neighbourliness and Syrian national sovereignty".
Syria said the strikes killed seven people, including three children and a woman. Jordan regretted the civilian casualties, Government Communication Minister Mohammed al-Momani said in a post on X.
The Hashemite Kingdom’s air force Monday evening carried out air strikes in Syria in retaliation for last week’s attacks on a funeral at a Greek Orthodox Church in the southern Jordanian city of Karak that killed nine people. Earlier that day it announced it arrested the three gunmen, but did not disclose their affiliation.
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The numbers given in remarks by Momani differ from what Syrian first-responders reported. Syria's civil defense said it only recovered the bodies of seven civilians killed in Jordanian strikes in the southern Daraa and Sweida provinces. Five of those were a family, including three children and a woman; two of the men who were killed were elderly.
Syria’s government said the strikes were carried out without prior coordination or notification.
Al-Momani said the attacks were based on intelligence on “confirmed threats and planned terrorist acts against Jordan", and expressed regret over the civilian casualties.
Amman and Damascus maintained strong bilateral ties following the downfall of the Assad dynasty in December 2024 and the emergence of interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s Islamist-led government.
Jordan said on Tuesday it was keen to safeguard its ties with Syria. "Jordan holds great respect for the Syrian state and its brotherly people, and coordination between Jordan and Syria in fighting terrorism and weapons and drug smuggling is ongoing and has been for years," Momani said.
Masoud al-Salim lost his wife, son, and three grandchildren in one of the strikes that hit his home in the Syrian border village of Al-Tuff in Daraa province.
“I came running and found there was no house anymore, no tent, nothing. I couldn’t find anyone,” al-Salim said, rummaging through children’s schoolbooks and toys in the rubble. “I started looking under the rubble. I thought they might be buried there.”
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
In a Syrian foreign ministry statement released a day after the Jordanian strikes, Syria said they were "an unacceptable violation and breach of Syrian airspace without any prior coordination". It also said the attack was "a blatant violation of the principles of good-neighbourliness and Syrian national sovereignty".
Syria said the strikes killed seven people, including three children and a woman. Jordan regretted the civilian casualties, Government Communication Minister Mohammed al-Momani said in a post on X.
The Hashemite Kingdom’s air force Monday evening carried out air strikes in Syria in retaliation for last week’s attacks on a funeral at a Greek Orthodox Church in the southern Jordanian city of Karak that killed nine people. Earlier that day it announced it arrested the three gunmen, but did not disclose their affiliation.
Read moreJordan's strikes on Syria over church terror attack kill several civilians
The numbers given in remarks by Momani differ from what Syrian first-responders reported. Syria's civil defense said it only recovered the bodies of seven civilians killed in Jordanian strikes in the southern Daraa and Sweida provinces. Five of those were a family, including three children and a woman; two of the men who were killed were elderly.
Syria’s government said the strikes were carried out without prior coordination or notification.
Al-Momani said the attacks were based on intelligence on “confirmed threats and planned terrorist acts against Jordan", and expressed regret over the civilian casualties.
Amman and Damascus maintained strong bilateral ties following the downfall of the Assad dynasty in December 2024 and the emergence of interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s Islamist-led government.
Jordan said on Tuesday it was keen to safeguard its ties with Syria. "Jordan holds great respect for the Syrian state and its brotherly people, and coordination between Jordan and Syria in fighting terrorism and weapons and drug smuggling is ongoing and has been for years," Momani said.
Masoud al-Salim lost his wife, son, and three grandchildren in one of the strikes that hit his home in the Syrian border village of Al-Tuff in Daraa province.
“I came running and found there was no house anymore, no tent, nothing. I couldn’t find anyone,” al-Salim said, rummaging through children’s schoolbooks and toys in the rubble. “I started looking under the rubble. I thought they might be buried there.”
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
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