Israel urges Europe to "wake up" on Syria after killing

The Foreign Minister of Israel asked Europe to “cease granting the legitimacy” to the transition authorities in Syria, after hundreds of civilians were killed in confrontations, in an interview published on Sunday.

“Europe does not have to fail in reading reality,” said Foreign Minister Gideon Saar for the Bild newspaper in Germany.

“It has to wake up. It has to stop granting the legitimacy of a regime whose first actions are not surprising, given that its well -known terrorist are these atrocities.”

The clashes broke out on Thursday between the new security forces in Syria and the loyalists of the former government along the Mediterranean coast, in the heart of the Alawite minority, from which President Bashar al-Assad belongs.

They escalated into reported mass killings and the most serious violence since Assad’s overthrow.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Monitor reported that 745 Alawite civilians were killed in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus.

The fight also killed 125 members of the security forces and 148 pro-Assad fighters, according to the observer, obtaining a general number of death at 1,018.

Saar told Bild that “the international community in general and, in particular, Europe, has thrown into Damascus in recent months to shake hands” with Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.

“However, his people were also jihadists and they remain jihadists, even though they are now wearing costumes,” he argued.

“This weekend, the masks came out, while the men mercifully massacred their own people,” he added.

The Islamist group of Shaiaa, Hayat Tahrir Al-Ham, who led the offensive of the lightning that overturned Assad in December, has its roots in the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda and remains proven as a terrorist organization, including the United States.

But the new leaders in Syria clamped for the West to weaken the sanctions imposed on Assad’s regime during the country’s civil war.

Last month, the European Union reduced sanctions on the Syria energy, transport and banking sectors, in an attempt to help the country’s reconstruction.

Since the fall of Assad, Israel has held troops in a non-Patro-overlaid buffer area that separated the Israeli and Syrian forces on the 1974 Golan Heights strategy.

Israeli forces have also carried out repeated air attacks against Syrian military sites.

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