Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a telephone conversation. On Thursday, July 6, according to the Kremlin website.
“In the context of joint efforts in the fight against international terrorism were discussed the problems of the middle East settlement and the situation in Syria,” the statement reads. In addition, Putin and Netanyahu discussed bilateral cooperation.
It is noted that the conversation took place on the initiative of the Israeli side.
7 APR Netanyahu in his microblog on Twitter wrote that Jerusalem supports the decision of the Washington about the missile strike on Syria. Then, with two destroyers in the Mediterranean were fired 59 “Tomahawk” on the government’s military airbase shirt in the province of HOMS in the West of the SAR. The US President Donald trump, who gave the order to fire, confident that it was from Damascus a few days earlier had carried out the chemical attack in Idlib province.
Relations between Syria and Israel the last few decades, remain tense, particularly over the territorial dispute over the Golan heights. Israel in 1967 and occupied them at the end of the six day war, but Damascus continues to consider the territory of their own.