Israel Intelligence minister says
condemnations of Assad regime by international community are mere lip service.
Israeli intelligence believes that
Wednesday's reports of a chemical attack in Damascus are credible, a senior
Israeli official said on Thursday, Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper revealed.
Yuval Steinitz, the Israeli minister for
intelligence and strategic affairs, told Israel Radio that it is Israel's
intelligence assessment that President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons
against Syrian civilians on Wednesday, according to Haartez.
This was not the first time chemical
warfare was used by Assad in the Syrian civil war, he said, joining Defense
Minister Moshe Ya'alon who said on Wednesday that the Syrian regime has already
used chemical weapons multiple times.
With Wednesday's death toll estimated
between 500 and 1,300, what would be the world's most lethal chemical weapons
attack since the 1980s prompted an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security
Council in New York. Syrian authorities have denied the army used chemical
weapons.
Opposition activists said men, women and
children were killed as they slept. Activists say several towns in Ghouta where
hit with rockets loaded with poison gas at dawn on Wednesday.
Steinitz said condemnations made by the
international community were mere lip service, since no significant steps were
taken to stop Assad. When asked of the United Nations mission to Syria, the
minister said that the investigations were not serious, Haaretz said.
Zaman Alwasl
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