Caracas slams Israeli attack on Damascus airport, war crimes in Gaza
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Venezuela says in a statement that the Israeli aggression is part of a pattern of hostile actions and war crimes committed against the Palestinian people.
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Syrian air defenses respond to Israeli missiles targeting south of the capital Damascus, on July 20, 2020 (AFP)
Caracas strongly condemned the aggression carried out by "Israel" on Damascus International Airport in the Syrian Arab Republic, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
The Israeli army carried out an attack on the country's main airport on Sunday afternoon of November 26, causing significant material damage and rendering it inoperable, the second such attack in under a week.
A Syrian military source told Al Mayadeen then that the Syrian air defenses successfully intercepted an "Israeli airstrike launched from the direction of the occupied Golan targeted Damascus Airport," adding that the strike also targeted some other posts across Damascus' countryside.
As a result of the aggression the planes that were set to land in Damascus were diverted toward Aleppo and Latakia airports instead.
The aggression comes as part of an Israeli-declared objective to weaken Syria for its key role in the Resistance against the occupation entity and Western hegemonic plots in the region in support of the Palestinian cause, especially now during the war on Gaza, which was the driving factor behind the global war on the country since 2011.
This has particularly increased the Israeli attacks amid its ongoing brutal war on the Gaza Strip, temporarily halted under a Resistance-forced 4-day truce in return for a prisoner exchange deal and flow of limited aid to Gaza, after 50 days of complete blockade, daily massacres, strikes on hospitals and medical crews and journalists, leaving over 16,000 martyrs, over half children and women.
Despite ongoing indirect talks to exchange more prisoners in return for extending the pause for a few days, the Israeli army and top officials publicly declared that the war on the Strip would continue the minute the truce ended.
Venezuela has been one of the most vocal countries in slamming the Israeli violent war on Gaza since the start, openly declaring its position against the crimes committed against Palestinians in the Strip.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said last week that the Israeli occupation's crimes against Palestinians "have surpassed the Holocaust, where millions of Jews were annihilated in Nazi detention camps in Germany."
Maduro stated in a separate event that "the world must stay in the streets because we must win this battle for the right to life and land, and the establishment of a Palestinian state."
The Ministry said that the latest act of Israeli aggression, which has escalated political and military tensions in the Middle East, is part of a pattern of hostile actions and war crimes committed against the Palestinian people.
This constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian law, it added, stressing that the ongoing war on Gaza has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths, injuries, displaced people, and mass destruction.
The Venezuelan government emphasized in the statement that the path of diplomacy is the only destiny for humanity.
To this end, Venezuela urged the international community to unite against all forms of violence, in line with the principles and objectives of the United Nations Charter and other international legal commitments.
