The UN Security Council is scheduled to hold an emergency session on Thursday to discuss Israeli attacks on Syria.

The Permanent Mission of Algeria to the United Nations stated that the session will be held at the request of Algeria and Somalia, members of the Security Council.

The statement indicated that the emergency session will discuss the Israeli attacks on Syria, and will be held on Thursday at 10:00 a.m. local time (14:00 GMT).

Since 1967, Israel has occupied most of the Syrian Golan Heights. Taking advantage of the new situation in the country following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, Israel occupied the Syrian buffer zone and declared the collapse of the 1974 disengagement agreement between the two sides.

For months, Israel has been launching airstrikes on Syria on an almost daily basis, killing civilians and destroying Syrian military sites, vehicles, and ammunition, even though the country's new administration has not threatened Tel Aviv in any way.

Syrian factions took control of the country on December 8, ending 61 years of brutal Baath Party rule and 53 years of Assad family rule.