Donald Trump was “caught off guard” by Israeli strikes on Syria final week, the White Home has mentioned, including that the US president referred to as Benjamin Netanyahu to “rectify” the state of affairs.
Israel launched strikes on the capital Damascus and the southern Druze-majority metropolis of Sweida final week, saying it aimed to place strain on the Syrian authorities to withdraw its troops from the area amid ongoing clashes there.
Trump “was caught off guard by the bombing in Syria and likewise the bombing of a Catholic church in Gaza,” spokesperson Karoline Leavitt informed reporters at a press briefing on Monday.
“In each accounts, the president rapidly referred to as the prime minister to rectify these conditions,” she continued.
An Israeli strike on Gaza’s solely Catholic church final week, killed three individuals and injured 10 others together with the parish priest, who used to obtain each day calls from the late Pope Francis.
The Israeli prime minister referred to as Pope Leo to specific remorse over the strike on the Gaza church, blaming a “stray missile.”
Netanyahu visited the White Home earlier this month, his third journey since Trump returned to energy in January, and Leavitt praised his relationship with the president, including they had been in “frequent communication.”
Israel and Syria on Friday started a US-brokered ceasefire and on Monday, Syrian authorities evacuated Bedouin households from Sweida.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor mentioned the ceasefire was largely holding regardless of remoted gunfire in areas north of Sweida metropolis, with no new stories of casualties.
Final week’s clashes within the southern province killed greater than 1,260 individuals, in keeping with the battle monitor, and have shaken the rule of interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has pledged to guard minorities in a rustic devastated by 14 years of battle.
In Could, Trump met with Sharaa in Saudi Arabia and introduced the lifting of many longstanding US sanctions towards Damascus.
Trump later praised the chief, who led a significant armed group that was as soon as aligned with al-Qaida and toppled the Syrian authorities of Bashar al-Assad in December.
The US eliminated a bounty on Sharaa after he got here to energy.
With Agence France-Presse
