Israel's Massive Strikes on Syria: 480 Airstrikes in 2 days #israelhamaswar #syria #israel #usa

The collapse of the Assad regime has prompted a punishing military response from Israel, which has launched airstrikes at military targets across Syria and deployed ground troops both into and beyond a demilitarized buffer zone for the first time in 50 years.

The Israeli military on Tuesday said it had carried out about 480 strikes across the country over the past two days, hitting most of Syria’s strategic weapon stockpiles, while Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Israeli navy had destroyed the Syrian fleet overnight, hailing the operation as “a great success.”

Just a day earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had hailed the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime as “a new and dramatic chapter.”

“The collapse of the Syrian regime is a direct result of the severe blows with which we have struck Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran,” he said during a rare press conference Monday. “The axis has not yet disappeared but as I promised – we are changing the face of the Middle East.”

Israeli officials have reveled in the downfall of Assad, a staunch ally of Iran who allowed his country to be used as a resupply route for Hezbollah in Lebanon. But they also fear what could come from radical Islamists governing Syria, which borders Israel in the occupied Golan Heights.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar told journalists on Monday that Israel was bombing Syrian military facilities housing chemical weapons stocks and long-range missiles to prevent them from falling “into the hands of extremists.”

“With regard to what will be in the future, I’m not a prophet,” he said. “It is important right now to take all necessary steps in the context of the security of Israel.”

[Nick-pqri]

Whatever the world may think! Netanyahu has done what no one as ever had the balls to do and that is to proactively take out an entire military capability ensuring that no one attacks Israel again Israel have seaze mount hevron which overlooks Damascus a mere 40 kilometres away well with in artillery range the new leaders of Syria best get thier collective heads together to come up with a viable plan for future stability of Syria there is no way that the Israeli forces are going to give up the mountains 🏔️ overlooking Syria

[gregianyan]

I wonder what the reactions of others toward Netanyahu would be. What will they think?