Geir Pedersen, the UN’s special envoy for Syria, is calling on Israel to end its ground operations and bombing raids in Syria, calling them “very troubling.”
“We are continuing to see Israeli movement and bombardments into Syria,” he said in Geneva on Tuesday. “This needs to stop. This is extremely important.”
Since fall of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad three days ago, Israel has carried out heavy attacks across the country.
Israel hit more than 100 targets in the span of 12 hours alone, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, reported.
The targets reportedly include a chemical weapons factory, which Israel feared could fall into the hands of the rebel alliance that ousted al-Assad.
Pederson described the various rebel groups now in power in Syria as being in coordination after al-Assad’s flight.
“It is important that we don’t see conflict between these groups,” he said.
