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Israel’s strikes on Syria following the fall of longtime president Basher Al-Assad violate international law, United Nations experts said yesterday, branding Israel’s attempts to “preemptively disarm” its foes as “lawless”.

Since Assad’s ouster, Israel, which borders Syria, has sent troops into a buffer zone on the east of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, in a move the UN has said violates a 1974 armistice.

Over the past 48 hours, following the collapse of the government of Bashar al-Assad, the military said jets had conducted more than 350 strikes on targets including anti-aircraft batteries, military airfields, “If

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