Doha Forum 2025: Syrian President highlights more than 1000 air raids, 400 incursions by Israel on Syria since last December

Doha: The President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Ahmed Al Shar a, affirmed that Israel had carried out, since Dec. 8 of last year, more than a thousan...

Doha: The President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Ahmed Al Shar’a, affirmed that Israel had carried out, since Dec. 8 of last year, more than a thousand airstrikes and 400 ground incursions into Syria up to the present day, the latest of which was the massacre committed in the Beit Jin area in the Damascus countryside, leaving more than 25 people dead.

His Excellency said during a newsmaker interview on the first day of the Doha Forum 2025 said that Israel was managing its regional crises by exporting them to other countries in an attempt to evade responsibility for the horrific massacres it committed in the Gaza Strip, and that it behaved as though it were fighting ghosts while justifying its actions with claims of security concerns and instability, projecting the events of Oct. 7 onto everything happening around it.

He added that since Dec. 8, 2024, Syria had sent clear positive messages affirming its commitment to peace and regional stability, clearly expressing its desire to be a stable state not interested in exporting conflicts to other countries, including Israel, yet Israel responded to this approach with severe violence.

President Al Shar’a said that his country was confronting these developments through communication with influential regional and international actors, noting that the world today supported Syria’s demands for Israel to withdraw to the positions held prior to Dec. 8.

He reiterated Syria’s full commitment to the 1974 agreement and its respect for it, explaining that the agreement had successfully endured for more than 50 years with international and UN Security Council consensus, while warning against tampering with it or seeking alternative arrangements such as establishing a buffer zone or similar ideas, which he said would open the door to dangerous and uncertain paths.