Syria's de facto leader not interested in new conflicts despite Israeli attacks

Sharaa – better known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani – leads the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) community that swept Assad from energy final week, ending the family’s five-decade iron-fisted rule

Reuters

15 December, 2024, 10:25 am

Closing modified: 15 December, 2024, 10:27 am

Syria’s de facto chief, Ahmad al-Sharaa acknowledged on Saturday Israel is using unfounded pretexts to account for its attacks on Syria, but that he’s no longer drawn to participating in unique conflicts because the nation specializes in rebuilding following the quit of Bashar al-Assad’s reign.

Sharaa – better known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani – leads the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) community that swept Assad from energy final week, ending the family’s five-decade iron-fisted rule.

Israel has since moved into a demilitarised zone inner Syria created after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, including the Syrian aspect of the strategic Mount Hermon that overlooks Damascus, where it took over an deserted Syrian armed forces post.

Israel, which has acknowledged that it does no longer intend to discontinuance there and calls the incursion into Syrian territory a restricted and brief measure to be clear border security, has additionally implemented hundreds of strikes on Syria’s strategic weapons stockpiles.

Several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan, condemned what they known as Israel’s seizure of a buffer zone in the Golan Heights.

“Israeli arguments comprise become passe and never account for their hottest violations. The Israelis comprise clearly crossed the traces of engagement in Syria, which poses a menace of unwarranted escalation in the region,” Sharaa acknowledged in an interview published on the safe situation of Syria TV, a official-opposition channel.

“Syria’s war-weary situation, after years of warfare and war, does no longer enable for effect unique confrontations. The precedence at this stage is reconstruction and balance, no longer being drawn into disputes that can also lead to further destruction.”

He additionally acknowledged diplomatic solutions had been the most attention-grabbing capacity to be clear security and balance and that “uncalculated armed forces adventures” had been no longer wanted.

On Russia, whose armed forces intervention nearly a decade ago helped tip the balance in Assad’s favour and which gave asylum to the ousted chief earlier this week, Sharaa acknowledged that its relations with Syria have to again trendy pursuits.

“The present stage requires careful administration of world relations,” he added.