Syria to UNSC: Stop Zionist Regime’s Unacceptable Attacks

DAMASCUS (Press TV) – Syria’s Foreign Ministry has condemned as "unacceptable” the Zionist regime’s continued attacks on the Arab country, calling on the United Nations Security Council to stop the recurrence of such aggression.

In a letter addressed to the United Nations secretary-general and the president of the UN Security Council, the Syrian ministry said that the occupying regime had fired a barrage of missiles through Lebanese airspace toward the Masyaf area in the western countryside of Hama Province in Syria in the early hours of Friday.
The ministry described the attack as "a flagrant violation of the Security Council resolution 350 of 1974,” and said it was aimed at hindering the Syrian army’s campaign against foreign-backed terrorists.
According to Syria’s official news agency, SANA, the ministry stressed that the occupying regime’s "dangerous aggressive approach” toward Damascus could not continue without the U.S.’s "unlimited” support as well as the immunity from accountability provided to the occupying regime by Washington and some countries in the Security Council.
"Such attacks endanger the security and stability of the region, and its persistence is unacceptable and will have consequences,” the letter read.
The ministry concluded the letter by calling on the member states of the UNSC "to break the silence” and shoulder their responsibilities, including taking "firm and immediate measures to stop the recurrence of these Israeli terrorist attacks” and to hold the regime accountable for its crimes against the Syrian people, which constitute "flagrant violations of the Charter of the United Nations, the international law, and the Security Council Resolutions 242, 338, 350, and 497.”
Syria’s air defenses repelled the missile attack launched by the Zionist regime’s warplanes from the Lebanese airspace against the western Syrian city of Hama’s countryside.
The official Syrian Arab News Agency reported that the attack had come precisely 40 minutes past midnight (local time) on Friday (10:40 p.m. on Thursday GMT).
The agency said the country’s anti-missile apparatus managed to intercept and destroy the projectiles midair.
The Zionist regime frequently targets positions inside Syria, especially those of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, which has played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against terrorism.
The regime has been a main supporter of the terrorist groups that have opposed the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since militancy erupted in Syria nine years ago.