Israeli strikes on Syria against international law: UN

GENEVA: Israel´s strikes on Syria following the fall of longtime president Basher Al-Assad violate international law, United Nations experts said on Wednesday, branding Israel´s attempts to “preemptively disarm” its foes as “lawless”.

Since Assad´s ouster, Israel, which borders Syria, has sent troops into a buffer zone on the east of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, in a move the UN has said violates a 1974 armistice.

And Israel´s military said it had conducted hundreds of strikes against Syrian military assets in the past two days, claiming to target everything from chemical weapons stores to air defences to keep them out of rebel hands.