Israel will continue to operate in Syria until Iran "leaves" that country, Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday after a series of strikes were blamed on the Israeli military on Syrian territory.
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"Iran has nothing to do in Syria .... and we will not stop until they (the Iranians) have left Syria," said Bennett, but did not explicitly claim the raids. that Syrian state media and NGOs have attributed to Israeli aviation.
Monday night, fourteen Iranian and Iraqi fighters were killed in night raids in Syria, country at war and neighbor of Israel, indicated a Syrian NGO while affirming that the strikes had been carried out probably "by Israel.
Since April 21, the NGO and Syrian state media have reported on at least six strikes attributed to Israel against Iranian positions or groups close to Iran, including Lebanese Hezbollah, in Syria.
Iran and Hezbollah, the bane of Israel, are militarily helping the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad in its war against the rebels and the jihadists.
Iran "entered" Syria as part of the war in that country and seeks to "settle" at the Israeli border in order to "threaten" cities like "Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa", added Mr. Bennett during his interview with the Israeli channel Kan 11.
Iran has become a burden. It was previously an asset for the Syrians, they (the Iranians) helped Assad against Daesh (an acronym in Arabic of the jihadist group Islamic State), but they became a burden ", hammered the Israeli minister. He called the power in Tehran to focus on managing the local crisis of the new coronavirus.
