New York, Syria warned that Israel's continued disregard for international laws and its failure to comply with Security Council and General Assembly resolutions threatens regional and international peace and security. 'The events over the past few days' highlight that Israeli war criminals have decided to continue their bloody attacks to plunge the region into a full-scale war, benefiting from unlimited US support at the expense of international peace and security and the lives and blood of innocent people,' said Syria's permanent representative to the UN, Qusai Al-Dahhak, during a Security Council session on the situation in the Middle East. He blamed Israel for the heinous crime that occurred last Saturday in the town of Majdal Shams, resulting in the martyrdom of 12 Syrian children and the injury of a number of Syrian civilians, and denounced that 'Israel' used it as a pretext to continue its attacks against countries in the region. 'No reasonable person can believe the claims of the occupation authori ties to defend the people of the occupied Arab territories while committing the most atrocious violations against them,' he clarified. The Syrian delegate rejected the American statements justifying the aggressions of the Israeli occupier and of keeping the Golan occupied under the pretext of its importance for Israel's security. 'Maintaining international peace and security requires that the American administrations abandon their destructive policies and stop preventing the Security Council from fulfilling its mandate in accordance with the Charter,' said Al-Dahak. He also condemned Israel's terrorist attack on the Iranian capital Tehran, which killed the head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Ismail Haniyeh. 'This criminal act was preceded by the commission of another terrorist attack against a residential building in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and caused several deaths, including a woman and two children, and dozens of injuries,' he said. Syria conde mns in the strongest terms the Israeli attacks against its lands and against the sovereignty of Iran, Lebanon and other countries in the region, and expresses its full solidarity with these brother countries in the face of the sinful Israeli attacks to which they are exposed, the delegate said. He also warned that the continued disregard of the Israeli entity for international laws, its failure to comply with the resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly may lead to igniting the entire region and threatening regional and international peace and security. He clarified that Israeli war criminals would not have continued to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity if it were not for the unlimited support of the US and the hypocrisy and double standards practiced by some Western countries that are involved in' Israel' war against the Palestinian people and have remained silent on the matter. The diplomat demanded that Israeli war criminals be held accountable for their crimes, and not t o open the doors to receive them with applause and cheers. Syria calls on the Security Council to assume its basic responsibilities of condemning the repeated Israeli attacks and to act immediately to stop them, prevent their recurrence, and ensure that their perpetrators do not escape punishment, he concluded. Source: Syrian Arab News Agency