QATAR has condemned Israel’s seizure of land in Syria to create a "buffer zone", calling it a "flagrant violation of international law".
Following the fall of Asaad in the region, Israel said it is carrying out airstrikes on suspected chemical weapons sites and long-range rockets to keep them from falling into the hands of "extremists".
It has also seized a buffer zone inside Syria after Syrian troops withdrew.
Qatar considers it “a dangerous development and a blatant attack on Syria’s sovereignty and unity, as well as a flagrant violation of international law,” reads a statement from the country’s foreign ministry.
It added: “The policy of imposing a fait accompli pursued by the Israeli occupation, including its attempts to occupy Syrian territories, will lead the region to further violence and tension.
Qatar further urged the international community to "assume its legal and moral responsibilities to compel the occupation to comply with international legitimacy resolutions, as well as to unite in confronting its opportunistic schemes".
Israel struck suspected chemical weapons sites while the US military carried out air strikes against so-called Islamic State targets in the country on Sunday.
In the House of Commons on Monday, SNP MP Brendan O'Hara asked Foreign Secretary David Lammy how he could "legally justify" the Israeli strikes.
The MP said: "How would he explain and legally justify that having waited five decades to be free of Assad that on day one, those Syrians that he referenced in his statemen, who were on the streets cheering the demise of Assad, were on the receiving end of a massive Israeli airstrike?"
Lammy replied: "I did speak to my Israeli counterpart yesterday, I do think it's right to understand that there are legitimate security concerns for Israel, particularly in the context of a country that's housed Isis, and Al Qaeda, and Daesh.
"I wish it were as simplistic as the honourable gentleman seems to think it is. It's for all of those reasons that we want an inclusive society that supports everyone but none of us can have truck with terrorists."
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden defended the move this morning, telling Sky News that Israel has the right to bomb Syria in the wake of the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The rapid collapse of the Assad regime after 13 years of civil war saw a coalition of rebel groups seize Damascus, with the former president fleeing to Russia, one of his main allies.
Assad’s British wife Asma is believed to be with him in Moscow, but Prime Minister Keir Starmer declined to say whether he would consider stripping her of her UK citizenship, adding it was “too early” to say.
