Israeli attacks are angering Syrians and unsettling the country’s new leaders, who are dealing with multiple crises after the end of Bashar al-Assad’s rule.

Israel carried out heavy air strikes against all types of Syrian military infrastructure since December, leaving the new rulers already battered from 14 years of civil war, with little capacity to face it in a war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not allow Syria’s new army or the insurgent group that led the ouster of former President Bashar Assad to “enter the area south of Damascus”