{"id":300473,"date":"2024-12-16T08:12:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T08:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300473"},"modified":"2024-12-17T07:17:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T07:17:50","slug":"syria-will-not-engage-in-conflict-with-israel-hts-chief-breaks-silence-on-israeli-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300473","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Syria will not engage in conflict with Israel\u2019: HTS chief breaks silence on Israeli assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Dec 15, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Syria\u2019s de-facto new ruler has broken his silence on the Israeli regime\u2019s ongoing assaults on the Arab nation since President Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, saying that Damascus \u201cwill not engage\u201d in a conflict with Tel Aviv. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not about to engage in a conflict with Israel,\u201d Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Syrian TV on Saturday, citing the country\u2019s \u201cweakened state\u201d as the reason.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda and the former-deputy commander of Daesh (ISIS) also said that Israel has no longer any reason to attack the country because \u201cHezbollah and Iran are no more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Sharaa, known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, failed to mention Israel\u2019s numerous attacks on Syria\u2019s military industries, destroying Syria\u2019s navy, occupying vast swaths of lands on Golan Heights, and its plan to stay there \u201cuntil winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that HTS and its allies \u201chave no hostilities with Iranian society,\u201d but claimed the US- and Turkish-backed blitz that ousted the Assad government in Syria was \u201ca victory over the dangerous Iranian political project in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foreign-backed militants, led by HTS, took control of Damascus on December 8 and declared an end to President Assad\u2019s rule in a surprise offensive that was launched from their stronghold in northwestern Syria, reaching the capital in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has been gripped by militancy since 2011, when various armed groups, sponsored by Western countries and their regional allies, began their attempts to overthrow the Syrian government. Meanwhile, Iran and Russia supported the legitimate Syrian government in its fight against the militants.<\/p>\n<p>During his interview, Sharaa confirmed that HTS and its allies are in contact with Western countries and are \u201cholding discussions with Britain to restore its representation in Damascus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has also confirmed that the US is in direct contact with HTS, even though the US government had issued a $10 million bounty on Sharaa\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2024\/12\/15\/739101\/Syria-will-not-engage-in-conflict-with-Israel\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria\u2019s new leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani says \u2018Syria will not engage in conflict with Israel. Even though the IDF is dismantling what remains of Syria\u2019s Air Force, its air defences and its navy. What does this say about where al-Julani owes his allegiance? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":299670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300474,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300473\/revisions\/300474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/299670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}