Israeli strikes on Syrian military sites have opened the door "to all possibilities" and made the situation in the region "more dangerous," Syria's government said on Sunday.
"The government of the Syrian Arab Republic confirms that this aggression opens the door wide to all possibilities," the cabinet said in a statement read at a news conference by Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi.
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Palestinian health minister Hani Abdeen on Sunday paid a visit to the Hadassah hospital in west Jerusalem, the first visit by a Palestinian minister to Israel's largest medical facility, it said in a statement.
Accompanied by a delegation of senior Palestinian officials, Abdeen met Dr. Yuval Weiss, director of Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital, and distributed gifts to Palestinian patients.
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Turkish and Israeli officials will meet on Monday in Israel for another round of talks over compensation for a deadly 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a diplomatic source told Agence France Presse.
"The second round of negotiations will be held in Israel tomorrow," the source said on Sunday, without elaborating.
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Egypt denied Sunday that an Arab League Middle East peace plan was amended to include land swaps between Israel and a future Palestinian state, after Qatar suggested Arab acceptance of the proposal.
Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassem had said an Arab League delegation that met U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington last month recognized the possibility of a land swap.
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Egypt on Sunday condemned Israeli air strikes on Syria, with the Arab League also demanding that the U.N. Security Council act to stop what it called Israeli "attacks" against the war-torn country.
The Egyptian presidency said in a statement the air strikes "violated international law and principles that will further complicate the situation." The raids reportedly targeted rockets destined for Lebanon's Hizbullah.
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A Syrian official described Sunday's strikes on military sites near Damascus as a "declaration of war" by Israel.
In an exclusive interview with CNN, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Meqdad said the attack represented an alliance between Islamist “terrorists” and Israel.
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British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Sunday that apparent Israeli air strikes on Syria showed that peace across the whole region was under threat, and said Lebanon is vulnerable to destabilization.
Hague's comments came after a senior Israeli official said that the Jewish state carried out a pre-dawn attack near Damascus on Sunday targeting Iranian missiles destined for Hizbullah.
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Israel's military has deployed a rocket defense system to the north of the country following reported Israeli airstrikes in Syria targeting weapons believed to be destined for Hizbullah.
The military said it moved two Iron Dome batteries Sunday as part of "ongoing situational assessments."
Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour urged the Arab League on Sunday to take a “decisive stance” from the recent Israeli airstrikes in Syria.
Mansour condemned “the assault and the silence of the international community on the repeated Israeli aggressions on more than one Arab country.”
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Syria's rebel Free Syrian Army reacted cautiously on Sunday to reported Israeli air strikes near Damascus, saying their country was already under attack daily by regime war planes.
"Of course the Free Syrian Army and any Syrian is bothered that their country is being bombed, but Syria is being bombed every day by (President) Bashar Assad, and by Israel," FSA media and political coordinator Louay Meqdad told Agence France Presse.
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