Jordan carried out rare air strikes on southern Syria on Monday, hitting a Iran-linked drugs factory and killing a smuggler allegedly behind big hauls across the two countries' border, local and intelligence sources said.The sources said one strike hit an abandoned drug facility in Syria's southern Deraa province linked to the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, which is allied to Syria's government.Another strike on the village of Shaab, in the adjacent province of Sweida near the Jordanian border, killed Syrian drug kingpin Marie al-Ramthan and his family while they were at home.
Ramthan's wife and six children were killed.
As of this writing, a day after the airstrike, neither Amnesty International nor Human Rights Watch nor former HRW head Ken Roth have condemned the airstrike for being "disproportionate" even though the ratio of innocent victims to the intended target is at least 7-1.
Which seems strange for "human rights" organizations that are so quick to condemn Israel for airstrikes that kill civilians without knowing who the targets are or what the intelligence behind the strikes are.
Beyond that, Syria and Jordan are not at war. Jordan did an extrajudicial execution via an airstrike on a country it is at peace with.
Certainly that deserves a condemnation from the NGOs, right? According to their criticisms of Israeli actions killing militants, they should demand that Jordan should have arrested Ramthan in coordination with Syria and ensure no innocent civilians are killed.
It will be interesting to see the inconsistency between how "human rights" NGOs respond to the Jordanian airstrike and how they respond to Israel's airstrike in Gaza overnight that killed "ticking bomb" major militants and their families. (BDS is already making sad videos about the human-shield children killed in Gaza; but no one is making videos about the Ramthan family.)
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