This image made from video released by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a toddler given oxygen through respirators, in eastern Ghouta, Syria, April 8, 2018.He also called for the area to be immediately open to humanitarian and medical assistance to treat the wounded.
In February, Israel confirmed it had carried out a raid over Syria, in a rare admission of action.
The airstrikes targeted Syrian air defenses and resulted in an Israeli jet’s being downed during the mission, after an Iranian drone was launched into Israeli territory, according to Israeli Air Force Brig. Gen. Tomer Bar.
The pilots of the downed jet were able to parachute to safety before the craft crashed in northern Israel, Bar said.
The raid was “the most significant attack” since the 1982 Lebanon War, according to Bar.
Israel is said to have carried out around 200 airstrikes on Hezbollah and Syrian targets inside Syria since the start of the war, according to The New Yorker’s Robin Wright. The vast majority aren’t officially claimed by the Israeli military.
On April 4, 2017, a suspected chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun, a rebel-held town in Idlib province, killed more than 100 Syrians and injured many more.
Two days later, Trump ordered an attack on the Syrian military base from which the chemical weapons were believed to have been launched. Fifty-nine Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean Sea targeted the Shayrat Air Base in Homs.
Speaking after the Khan Sheikhoun attack, Trump condemned the use of chemical weapons and blamed his predecessor, President Obama:
“These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration’s weakness and irresolution. … President Obama said in 2012 that he would establish a 'red line' against the use of chemical weapons and then did nothing.”
Kaynak:Abcnews