Jordanian air force bombed southern Syria Monday night, saying retaliation for Friday attack on Karak Orthodox church that killed nine.
Syrians expressed outrage, demanding accountability for civilian deaths, notably a grandmother and her three grandchildren killed in a tent.
Syria closed the Nassib border crossing with Jordan Tuesday, reopening it Wednesday.
Syrian civil defence reported three additional family members wounded in the al-Taff tent strike.
Center
Seven civilian deaths
Jordan’s air force bombed southern Syria Monday night, saying strikes retaliated for a Friday gun attack on an Orthodox church in Karak that killed nine.
Police arrested three men—brothers Hazzah Zaidan Mohammad, Mishal Zaidan Mohammad, and Ahmad Sami Hussein—after a dawn shootout, calling them Sunni militants not linked to group.
Syria said seven civilians, including women, were killed without coordination.
The civil defense found seven bodies and shut Nasib crossing.
Blindspot
Jordanian police arrested three Jordanian men—brothers Hazzah Zaidan Mohammad, Mishal Zaidan Mohammad, and brother-in-law Ahmad Sami Hussein—after a dawn shootout in Karak, and officials described them as takfiri Sunni militants not linked to any organized group.
Within this story's sources, this angle appears mainly in Center-leaning coverage and receives less attention in Left-leaning coverage.
History
In September 1970 Syrian forces bearing PLA markings invaded Jordan, prompting King Hussein’s army, backed by the UN Truce Supervision Organization, to push them back and force a withdrawal by 22 September, a clash that left roughly 2,000 dead. The 1970 Black September war established a pattern of Jordanian cross-border retaliation that resurfaces today in airstrikes on southern Syria and the arrest of the Zaidan brothers.
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Outcry Over Grandchildren Killing
Jordanian air force bombed southern Syria Monday night, saying retaliation for Friday attack on Karak Orthodox church that killed nine.
Syrians expressed outrage, demanding accountability for civilian deaths, notably a grandmother and her three grandchildren killed in a tent.
Syria closed the Nassib border crossing with Jordan Tuesday, reopening it Wednesday.
Syrian civil defence reported three additional family members wounded in the al-Taff tent strike.
