Hundreds of people gathered in the coastal city of Tartous, where they raised national flags and raised banners with phrases denouncing Israel’s raids perpetrated under flimsy and unfounded pretexts, they said.

They also expressed their support for the State and the unity and sovereignty of the country.

“Dignity is indivisible and sovereignty is a red line,” “Syria is united and aggression will not break us,” expressed several of the messages reflected in the posters.

“No to fragmentation and no to partition” and “history will not forgive those who claim protection from Israel”, strongly underline other of the texts, supported by the demonstrators.

In the city of Latakia, a similar rally was organized to denounce the Israeli occupier’s attacks and reject interference in Syria’s internal affairs.

Taking advantage of the clashes in areas inhabited by the Druze minority, Israel intensified its bombing campaigns claiming to protect minorities.

On the eve, Israeli fighter jets violated Syrian airspace and launched a series of attacks on sites in the provinces of Quneitra, Deraa, Damascus, Hama and Latakia, in the south, center and west of this Levantine nation. According to local media, it was one of the most violent and widespread attacks by Tel Aviv since the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s government in December 2024, and comes 24 hours after a bombing near the Presidential Palace in Damascus, the capital.

The Israeli airstrikes coincided with ground incursions in rural Damascus, Quneitra and Deraa, where occupation forces took control of the buffer zone and then advanced to raid border sites.

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