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An increasing confrontation between Israel and Turkey for influence in Syria is creating a serious problem for a new delicate government in Syria.

On Wednesday night Israel bombed several military goals in Syria, including two airports – the Hama and T4 Base near Homa.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry said the bombing virtually destroyed the Hama base. An outstanding Syrian human rights group said four defense employees were killed and a dozen other people were injured.

Air strikes hit SyriaBut their true purpose was Turkey.

Shortly thereafter, the Israeli Foreign Minister accused Turkey of a “negative role” in Syria, and the Israeli Defense Minister warned Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa that he would “pay a very big price” if he allowed “hostile forces” to enter his country.

Ankara is currently negotiating joint pact with the new Sharaa government, and widespread reports that Turkey is moving to aircraft and air revolutions systems in Syria at T4 and Aleppo Airbase.

Some analysts compare intense air strikes at Hama Airport at Hama Airport with much lighter bombing on T4 base, assuming Turkey may have already moved the equipment there And that Israel calibrates its attack to avoid a full escalation.

Relations between Israel and Turkey fell since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, and Ankara imposed trading restrictions and accusing Israel of genocide.

This regional tension is now played on the new land in Syria.

After the air hit the air on Wednesday, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused Israel of destabilizing the region, “both causing chaos and feeding terrorism,” and stated that it was the greatest threat to the region’s security.

But Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Reuters reports that his country is not looking for confrontation with Israel, and that Syria could create his own policy with his southern neighbor.

Syria’s new leader has repeatedly indicated that he did not seek confrontation with Israel. Shortly after the sweeping of President Bashar al-Assad, he told the BBC in December last year that Syria did not pose a threat to any country.

He even left the door open to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel in the future, telling economists last month that Syria wants peace with all parties, but that it was early to discuss such a sensitive issue.

His main priority since the passage of power was the unification of bitterly divided Syria and pacify external relations with his neighbors, while he cemented his power and control.

But Israel did not so easy. His military interventions in Syria have a conflict with both external states such as Turkey and internal groups such as jihadists in the south.

After the unusable enemy of the former president of Syria and his Iranian ally, Israel is also suspicious of Sharaa, a man who once headed the Syrian branch al-Qaeda and the new government is supported by Turkey.

Ever since he has taken power, Israeli military has repeatedly knocked on Syrian weapons, airfields and other military places left by the former regime to avoid the enemy’s hands, the statement said.

He also occupied a demilitarized buffer zone created after the Arab-Israeli War of 1973, and sent forces to the Syrian side of the neighboring mountain, installing nine bases across the region.

Israeli troops are also regular invading in the southwestern provinces of Syria, promising to prevent the presence of armed groups and state forces.

Earlier this week, local government in the southern city of Deraa said that nine civilians were killed in an Israeli bombing, and there were also Israeli forces there.

Four more people were killed in Israeli shelling near the village of Kai late last month after local militants tried to stop the following Israeli troops.

Since then, the mosque both in Deraa and Damascus have been reported to have called for jihad against Israeli forces.

Charles Lister, Head of the Syria program at the Middle East Institute in the US, which has been studying the region, has since February has more than 70 reliable invasions in Southwestern Syria, calling it “an unusually dangerous moment and unnecessary.”

Since the fall of Assad, four months ago, not one attack was aimed at Israel from Syria, the country’s security forces have intercepted “at least 18 weapons intended for” Hezbolla “in Lebanon and dismantled at least eight former Iranian missiles.”

Many Syrians are disappointed with Israel’s response to their new government. For many years, they looked like Israel aimed at Assad’s regime, and believed that the drop of Assad would bring a chance for less confrontational relations with Israel.

Some say the opinion is changing now.

“We believed that the Israeli army was aiming only at the Assad regime,” said Ismail, the owner of the restaurant in the west. “But his constant, incomprehensible explosions, unfortunately, make us think that Israel is the enemy of the Syrian people.”

Syria is vulnerable because its internal divisions are easily ignited by regional and global interventions. The roots of the sectarian conflict are deep, which feeds on decades of repressive management of the Assad family, members of Syria Alavichy minority.

Attempts by Ahmed al-Sharaa assured the minorities of the country were interrupted in early March by an explosion of violence in the coastal region of Syria-Opirisha of the former regime.

At least 1,000 civilians Alawit or disarmed soldiers were developed by the Council, after the state units were ambushed as a result of a coordinated attack led by the remains of the former armed forces of Syria.

Those former armed forces once supported Iran. Some analysts believe that their remains can still receive support from Tehran.

The Syrians noted the fall of Bashar al-Assad as the end of their civil war and the opportunity to unite.

But by the borders, the powers helped to improve the civil war for more than ten years, and its neighbors are now looking at the vacuum left by Assad. The risk that Syria will again become a victim of conflicts across the borders, played on Syrian soil.