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MapSyria Summons Jordan’s Ambassador Over Bombardment Of Civilian Sites In Daraa
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Syria summoned Jordan's ambassador in Damascus to protest Daraa airstrikes. The protest noted civilian casualties from the Jordanian bombardment in Daraa.
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Daraa Protest and Summons
Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Jordanian ambassador to Damascus, Sufian Qudah, and handed him a protest note over Jordanian bombardment of civilian sites in the Daraa Governorate. SANA said the ministry delivered the protest note in response to the Jordanian bombing that resulted in civilian deaths, including children, and injuries to others. Syria and Jordan agreed, during a phone call between Foreign Minister Asad Shabaní and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi, to form a joint security committee to review all details and facts of the incident in Dara’a.
Jordanian warplanes carried out airstrikes on Monday on sites in the Dara’a countryside in southern Syria, which Amman said targeted members of the Islamic State, and the strikes killed seven people, including three children and a woman, and wounded three others, according to Syrian authorities. After the airstrikes, Syria said it conveyed to Jordan its full reservation about conducting operations inside Syrian territory without coordination, and Syria’s General Authority of Borders and Customs announced the temporary closure of the Nasib border crossing with Jordan before it was later reopened.
Numbers and Joint Committee
Jordanian officials framed the strikes as retaliation for an attack on a church in al-Karak in southern Jordan that killed nine people, and Jordanian authorities said the three attackers were Jordanians linked to the groups targeted in Syria. Syrian authorities said the Jordanian airstrikes targeted, according to the Syrian Civil Defense, a village in the Sweida Governorate and three villages in the Daraa Governorate, killing seven people including a woman and three children, according to Damascus. SANA quoted the Foreign Ministry’s Media Administration as saying it summoned "Sufian al-Qudah, the Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the Syrian Arab Republic," and handed him a protest note in response to the Jordanian bombing.
The joint statement described an agreement to form a joint security committee to review all details and facts of the recent operations and to monitor their consequences, while developing mechanisms for field and intelligence coordination to confront terrorist threats. In Jordan, Government Communications and Official Spokesperson Mohammed Momeni said the bombardments "targeted ISIS sites after Jordan ran out of patience" with the movements of these terrorist organizations and their threats to national security.
Border, Condemnation, and Stakes
Damascus condemned the Jordanian airstrikes as an “unacceptable violation and breach of the Syrian atmosphere without any prior coordination,” and it stressed in a Foreign Ministry statement that “this field conduct is entirely unacceptable ... as it constitutes a clear violation of the principles of good neighborliness and Syrian national sovereignty.” Jordan asserted that it had coordinated the strikes with Damascus, and Government Communications and Official Spokesperson Mohammed Momeni said the bombardments “targeted ISIS sites after Jordan ran out of patience” with terrorist threats to national security. Syria reopened the Nasib border crossing with Jordan after both countries affirmed their commitment to preventing anything that could spoil bilateral relations following the bombing.
The Syrian General Authority for Border Crossings and Customs announced the temporary closure of the Nasib border crossing with Jordan due to circumstances, then it was later reopened, and the Syrian authorities exempted from the closure decision the buses carrying Iranian pilgrims returning to the country. The diplomatic and security contacts continued as Damascus and Amman sought to address the consequences of the raids and prevent similar incidents on the shared border, while the two sides agreed to develop mechanisms for field and intelligence coordination to confront terrorist threats.