Syrian officials said Tuesday that Israeli strikes killed at least threesoldiers across its southern regions. Israel has carried out consistent attacks on its neighbour since the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad despite pursuing talks with the country's interim authorities.
AnIsraeliattack killed three soldiers near the capitalDamascus, aSyrianofficial said Tuesday, though an external war monitor said the toll was higher.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since an Islamist-led alliance toppled longtime rulerBashar al-Assadin December.
It has also opened talks with the interim authorities in Damascus.
"An Israeli drone targeted one of the military buildings of the 44th division of the Syrian army in Kiswah, west of Damascus, killing three members of the division," an official at the defence ministry told AFP, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights later said the toll had risen to six, all members of the 44th division.
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Earlier Tuesday, the official SANA news agency reported that "a young man was killed in an Israeli strike on a home in the village of Taranja", on the formerly Syria-controlled side of the armistice line on theGolan Heights.
Syria condemned "the recent Israeli attacks on its territory, which resulted in the martyrdom of a young man", the foreign ministry said.
It also condemned the Israeli forces' incursion into a town in the Quneitra countryside, their "arrest campaigns against civilians", and their "announcement of the continuation of their illegal presence on the summit of Mount Hermon and the buffer zone".
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"These aggressive practices constitute a flagrant violation of the UN Charter, international law, and relevant Security Council resolutions, and constitute a direct threat to peace and security in the region."
Since Assad's overthrow, Israel has occupied much of aUN-patrolled demilitarised zone on the formerly Syria-controlled side of the armistice line, including the summit of Mount Hermon, the region's highest peak.
Last week, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani metIsraeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer in Paris to push for a return to the arrangements that had been in place since a 1974 disengagement agreement.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
Originally published on France24
