Following a major 48-hour bombing campaign in Syria, the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday said it had destroyed most of the former Bashar al-Assad regime’s strategic military capabilities, in an effort to prevent advanced weaponry from falling into the hands of hostile elements.

In a statement, the IDF said that its Air Force and Navy had carried out over 350 strikes against “strategic targets” in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime over the weekend, taking out “most of the strategic weapons stockpiles in Syria.”

The military estimated that it had destroyed 70-80 percent of the former Assad regime’s strategic military capabilities.

The operation was dubbed “Bashan Arrow” within the military, after the biblical name for the Golan Heights and southern Syria region.

The IDF released footage from the campaign, during which it said over 320 targets were struck across all of Syria. The strikes began late Saturday, first taking out Syrian air defenses to give the Israeli Air Force more freedom. Wave after wave of airstrikes carried out by IAF fighter jets and drones then hit Syrian airbases, weapon depots and weapon production sites in Damascus, Homs, Tartus, Latakia and Palmyra, according to the military.

The military said the airstrikes destroyed many long-range projectiles, Scud missiles, cruise missiles, coast-to-sea missiles, air defense missiles, fighter jets, helicopters, radars, tanks, hangars and more.

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