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Report: 20 injured in another chemical attack in Syria – Israel News, Ynetnews.

Media report second chemical attack in Damascus. Assad affiliates say if Syria is attacked it would strike Israel

Roi Kais

Arab media reported Wednesday that another chemical attack struck Syrian territory, injuring several people in the Jobar neighborhood in eastern Damascus.

According to Al Jazeera, the number of injured was 20, whereas Al-Arabiya reported of nine.

Media also reported of a blast in the al Mujahedeen neighborhood, also in the Syrian capital. The circumstances of the blast are still unclear.

Syria’s opposition coalition said on Tuesday President Bashar Assad‘s forces had dropped phosphorus bombs and napalm on civilians in rural Aleppo on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens.

Video footage uploaded on the Internet, apparently of Monday’s attack, showed doctors frantically smearing white cream on the reddened skin of several screaming people, many of them young boys. “Assad’s military aircraft have hit populated areas with the internationally prohibited phosphorus bombs and napalm,” the opposition coalition said in a statement.

According to a Tuesday Foreign Policy magazine, US intelligence has intercepted an urgent phone call placed by a senior Syrian Defense Ministry official with a commander in a chemical weapons unit.

According to the report, the official contacted the commander to demand answers for the alleged chemical attack that killed more than 1,000 people in a Damascus suburb August 21. The call is the US’ main proof that Assad’s regime is responsible for the attack.

Assad affiliates insinuate Scud attack on Israel

Kuwait paper Al Rai has quoted sources close to Syrian President Bashar Assad as hinting that the embattled regime would attack Israel if Western forces launch an attack on its territory.

“Iraqi Scuds flew thousands of kilometers to reach Israel while Syrian missiles are no more than 50 km away from Israel’s most sensitive facilities,” the source said.

“If Israel wants to retaliate to a Syrian attack, the regime’s response will go further because it has nothing to lose,” he added, noting “A drowning man is not afraid to get wet.”

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