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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – IsraelThe Minister of Intelligence said on Tuesday Syria It cannot be allowed to obtain chemical weapons after a report is made that it is Israel targeted the country’s chemical weapons facilities.

In an interview with Israeli Army Radio, Eleazar Stern did not directly comment on the news published in the Washington Post, which included the following statements. Israel hit Syria twice – once this year and once last year – to thwart attempts to rebuild the chemical weapons stockpile. But Stern, a retired military general, Israel he could not accept such weapons in the hands of his enemy in the north.

“We have a neighbor who has proven that he does not hesitate to use chemical weapons even against his own people,” he said. (Syrian President Beshar Esad should not have chemical weapons.”

Israeli officials declined to comment on the Washington Post report.

Military affairs commentators IsraelFrequently briefed by senior defense officials, he said the timing of the report was no coincidence and came as negotiators were meeting with Iran in Vienna to try to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.

Iran has close relations Syria Syria sends troops to support President’s forces beshar Esad in her the country’s ten-year civil war.

“It was a signal to all actors, Iran and the USA. Israel Yossi Yehoshua wrote for Yediot Ahronot, the country’s largest paid newspaper.

Israel Iran has long been opposed to the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and the global powers, which provided relief from economic sanctions in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program.

Instead, he called for a deal with tighter safeguards on Iran’s nuclear program and discussed other Iranian military behavior such as support for the missile program and anti-guards.Israel militant groups such as the Lebanese Hezbollah. Israel it also supports a “credible” military threat against Iran as leverage.

Israel He believes that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons – Iran denies this accusation.

One of the attacks, quoted by the Washington Post on June 8, was reported by the Syrian state media as an Israeli airstrike near the Syrian capital, Damascus, and in the central province of Homs, with a response from the Syrian national air defense. Although violent explosions were heard in Damascus, there was no explanation in the official media about what was targeted in the attacks.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based group that closely monitors the war in Syria SyriaIt was reported that Israeli planes hit military targets in the countryside of Homs and Damascus. He said the targeted sites included a scientific research center near the village of Khirbet al-Tineh, northwest of Homs, as well as an ammunition depot likely to belong to Hezbollah south of Homs. It was stated that 11 soldiers, including a colonel, were killed in the attacks.

Unconfirmed reports published by the pro-Assad media at the time identified General Ayham Suleiman Ismail, a leading chemist of the colonel’s Center for Scientific Studies and Research.

The Center is a government institution defined by Syrians as a facility for the advancement of scientific research in the country, but has long been described by. Syria observers as an outfit for the development of chemical, biological and other weapons.

Israel He is believed to have attacked SSRC-related facilities multiple times in the past.

Syria It joined the Chemical Weapons Convention in September 2013, which was suppressed by Russia after a deadly chemical weapons attack that the West blamed on Damascus. As of August 2014, the Assad government declared the destruction of its chemical weapons complete, but the initial declaration of chemical stockpiles and production sites to the OPCW remained controversial. OPCW investigators blamed President Bashar Assad’s government for the three chemical attacks in 2017.

Earlier this year, UN disarmament chief Izumi Nakamitsu told the Security Council that Damascus’ declaration on its chemical stockpiles and chemical weapons production sites nearly eight years ago was incomplete.