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The White House announced the decisive support of Israel's right to self -defense from Iran provocations
The United States recognizes and support Israel’s right to protect against Iran’s actions in the region, official representatives of the White House said.
"Israel is a consistent ally of the United States, we support its right to self -defense from the forces of the Syrian militias supported by Iran in the south of Syria," the Press -Secretary of the White House Sarah Sanders, which quotes The Jerusalem Post .
Sanders called on Iran to "stop provocations" and act in the direction of establishing peace.
Before that, the representative of the US State Department Hiser Neurt said that Tehran is responsible for the Saturday incident on the border between Syria and Israel, Interfax reports. "The United States is deeply concerned about the escalation of tension in the area of the Israeli border, and decisively support Israel's right to self -defense," the statement of the diplomat Neurta said.
Recall, on February 10, the Israeli Air Force was applied by the Iranian military in Syria after the Iranian drone was cut on their territory. In response to the attack, Syrian air defense shot down an Israeli fighter. AsNewsru Israel clarifies, experts are inclined to the version that the Iranian “clone” of the American UPP-170 Sentinel has been shot down over Israeli territory.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, commenting on air strikes on Iranian positions in Syria, said that Iran is using Syrian territory to organize aggression against Israel. On Saturday evening, Netanyahu phoned Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the US State Department Rex Tillerson. According to the Kremlin’s press service, Putin, in an interview with the Israeli Prime Minister, spoke out “avoiding any steps that could lead to a new round of dangerous confrontation in the region”.
UN Secretary General: Conflict in Syria entered one of the most bloody stages
Air strikes in Syria took more than 1000 lives of civilians only in the first week of February. This has become one of the highest indicators for the entire confrontation, the UN Secretary General Antoniu Gutherrisha reported on Saturday.
"The Syrian people are experiencing one of the most bloody periods for almost seven years of the conflict," the report said. Gutherrish expressed the concern of the "alarming military escalation in Syria, flowing beyond its limits," TASS reports.
The statement notes that the Secretary General "carefully monitors the causing alarm by military escalation in Syria and the dangerous development of the situation in the boundaries area."
Gutherrish reminded all parties to the conflict of obligations in the framework of international humanitarian law, and also called on everyone to "work on achieving an immediate and unconditional cessation of violence and show restraint."