Damascus, January 15 (RHC)-- The Syrian government has condemned new Israeli airstrikes on Syrian territory, calling on the United Nations Security Council to take immediate and decisive measures to prevent the repetition of such attacks.

According to Syria’s official news agency SANA, the Israeli regime launched airstrikes on the eastern parts of Syria near the Iraqi border in the early hours of Wednesday.  The strikes targeted the city of Dayr al-Zawr and the town of al-Bukamal.

In a letter to the United Nations secretary-general and the president of the Security Council later in the day, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said the Israeli aggression had been synchronized with the criminal practices of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against the Syrian people in Hasaka, Dayr al-Zawr, and Raqqa.

“The government of the Syrian Arab Republic, with the assistance of friendly countries and allies, affirms its determination to regain every inch of the Syrian soil and liberate it from terrorism and reconstruct what has been destroyed by terrorism,” the ministry said, SANA reported.

It called on the Security Council to assume responsibility in the framework of the UN Charter, emphasizing that the Israeli regime had to be held accountable for its crimes against the Syrian people in violation of the UN Charter and relevant Security Council resolutions, particularly Resolutions 242, 338, 350, and 497.