A Syrian minister has slammed his government's response to the recent Israeli airstrikes against Syrian military sites as "weak", calling for "fast response" on several fronts.

Ali Haidar, the minister of national reconciliation, made the remarks during an interview with the Lebanese al-Akhbar newspaper on Tuesday, during which he stated that the Syrian government's response to the Israeli airstrike that targeted military sites in the capital Damascus earlier on Sunday was "weak and didn't live up to the size of the event in comparison with the huge losses caused by the aggression."

The Syrian government condemned the attack and said the aggression "opens the door widely before all eventualities." It however didn't overtly speak of immediate retaliation.

While revealing that the Israeli attack targeted more than one weapons' depot and caused big losses in the targeted sites as well as large number of casualties among civilians and army personnel, Haidar said that military information about what happened were not made public, according to the paper.

He said that the "Israeli intervention, while embarrassing the armed opposition groups, it rendered help for them," noting that the attack came at a time when the Syrian army was advancing on ground.

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