Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic

Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic

Damascus, 28 November 2025

The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest possible terms the criminal attack perpetrated by a patrol of the Israeli occupation forces that infiltrated the town of Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside, where its members blatantly assaulted residents and their property. The aggression triggered direct clashes as the people of the town confronted the invading patrol and compelled it to withdraw from Syrian territory.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates affirms that the subsequent brutal and deliberate bombardment of Beit Jinn by the occupation forces – launched after the failure of their ground incursion – constitutes a fully fledged war crime. The attack resulted in a horrific massacre that claimed the lives of more than ten civilians, among them women and children, and forced a large number of residents to flee their homes amid continuing indiscriminate and deliberate shelling of civilian dwellings.

The Syrian Arab Republic holds the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for this grave aggression and for the resulting deaths and destruction. It regards the persistence of such criminal attacks as a direct threat to regional security and stability and as part of a systematic policy aimed at destabilising Syria and imposing an aggressive new reality by force.

Syria renews its call on the United Nations Security Council, the United Nations, and the League of Arab States to take immediate and effective action to halt the aggressive policies and repeated violations committed by the Israeli occupation against the Syrian people, and to adopt deterrent measures that ensure respect for international law, the Charter of the United Nations, and the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic.

Syria reaffirms that it will continue to exercise its legitimate right to defend its land and its people by all means sanctioned under international law. These crimes will only reinforce its determination to uphold its full rights and sovereignty and its categorical rejection of all forms of occupation and aggression.