Meanwhile, the UN Security Council is going to discuss the situation in the country after the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad.
SOHR reports that hundreds of Israeli airstrikes have been carried out over the past two days, including on a site in Damascus believed to be used by Iranian scientists to develop missiles.
The strikes come as the UN chemical weapons watchdog warns Syrian authorities that suspected chemical weapons stockpiles are safe.
According to the UN’s chemical watchdog, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a chemical weapon is a chemical substance used to intentionally cause death or harm because of its external toxic properties.
The use of chemical weapons is prohibited by international humanitarian law regardless of the presence of a real military objective, as the effects of such weapons are indiscriminate.
It is not known where or how much chemical weapons are in Syria, but former President Bashar al-Assad is believed to have stockpiled and that the declaration he made was incomplete.
Syria signed the OPCW’s chemical weapons certification in 2013, a month after a chemical weapons attack on a suburb of the capital Damascus that used the nerve agent sarin and killed more than 1,400 people.
Horrible pictures of victims writhing in agony shocked the world. Western powers said the attack could only have been carried out by the government, but Assad blamed the attack on the opposition.
Despite the fact that the OPCW and the UN have destroyed all 1,300 tons of chemicals claimed by the Syrian government, chemical weapons attacks in the country continue.
A BBC analysis in 2018 confirmed that between 2014 and 2018 chemical weapons have been used in the Syrian civil war at least 106 times.
