Israeli military aircraft reportedly carry out an airstrike against military installations inside Syria, in the latest such acts of aggression since militant factions, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, toppled the government of Bashar al-Assad in early December last year.

An Israeli aerial attack targeted and destroyed a weapons depot near the city of Dayr al-Zawr, located 450 kilometers (279 miles) northeast of the capital Damascus, before daybreak on Tuesday, local media outlets reported.

The attack leveled the depot and caused massive explosions heard from long distances, the reports added.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli regime or the military on the airstrike.

Following the collapse of the Syrian government, the Israeli military has been launching airstrikes against military installations, facilities, and arsenals belonging to Syria’s now-defunct army.

The occupying regime’s attacks have drawn widespread condemnation for violating Syria’s sovereignty and devastating assets belonging to the Arab nation.

In the wake of the fall of Assad, Israel, which has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, also invaded a UN-patrolled buffer zone in southwestern Syria, taking over the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, known as Jabal al-Shaykh in Arabic, as well as a number of Syrian towns and villages.

Israel has also come under censure over termination of the 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria, and exploiting the chaos in the Arab nation in the wake of Assad’s downfall to make a land grab.

The buffer zone in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights was created by the United Nations after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.  A UN force of about 1,100 troops had patrolled the area since then.

Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, said last December that the presence of Israeli soldiers, however long it lasts, violates the deal that established the buffer zone.

That agreement “needs to be respected, and occupation is occupation, whether it lasts a week, a month or a year, it remains occupation,” Dujarric pointed out.