Zionist regime did not hit convoy: Syrian envoy

The Syrian ambassador to the UN says there is ‘no truth’ to the reports that the recent Zionist regime’s attack on a research center near Damascus targeted a convoy heading to Lebanon.

Bashar al-Ja’afari stated in letters to the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council and the UN secretary general “Syria emphasizes that there is no truth to the media reports asserting that the Zionist regime’s aircraft had targeted a convoy that was heading from Syria to Lebanon”. The letters were circulated on Thursday.
According to the Syrian army, two people were killed and five others injured in the airstrike that was carried out on January 30.
Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah strongly condemned the attack and said it was “barbaric aggression.”
The Syrian envoy added that the Zionist regime’s aircraft flew at a low altitude to avoid the radar and bombed the research center in Jamraya, near the capital.
Ja’afari said “The attack caused destruction and substantial material damage not only to the center, but also to the adjacent technical development center and a parking garage.”
He added that the Zionist regime’s attack followed several failed attempts by terrorist groups in Syria to take control of the research center.
The Syrian ambassador stated the airstrike “occurred after Zionist regime, in cooperation with states hostile to the Syrian people, had ordered its lackeys inside the country to strike selected vital Syrian military sites.”