The eight strikes on the Abu Al-Duhur airbase in northwest Idlib province on Tuesday have been characterised by Netanyahu as a warning to Turkey towards increasing its navy presence in Syria or serving to rebuild the Syrian armed forces.
Netanyahu’s workplace claimed Israel and Syria had agreed to “a establishment in safety issues”, which Damascus was “on the verge of breaching” by allowing Turkish troops to deploy on the airbase close to Aleppo.
“Israel repeatedly warned Syria that such a deployment would pose a menace to Israel’s safety. Syria selected to disregard these warnings,” Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned in an announcement issued on Tuesday night.
The next day, the Israeli chief reframed the strikes as a “message” that he wouldn’t tolerate a Turkish navy entrenchment in Syria that “advances southward, as a result of it threatens us”.
“We conveyed that message: don’t,” Netanyahu instructed Israeli Military Radio. “However apparently they didn’t hear it, so we made positive they understood it higher”.
His feedback adopted a uncommon expression of “deep concern” from Washington at Israel’s “pointless escalation”.
