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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) continues to operate with much freedom within the buffer zone adjacent to the Golan Heights and beyond in southern Syria, without facing any resistance from the forces of the country’s new Islamist-led interim government.
On May 11, the military announced that the 210th Division was still deployed on the Golan front to “defend” the Golan Heights.
“The division’s forces are deployed and equipped to handle multiple scenarios based on ongoing situational assessments, and also continue to provide assistance to the Syrian-Druze population in the area,” it said in a statement.
In a later statement, the IDF said that the elite Paratroopers Brigade was being redeployed from southern Syria to southern Israel ahead of an upcoming major offensive in the Gaza Strip.
The brigade concluded its operations and is now preparing with the 98th Division for “additional missions in Gaza ahead of the expansion of the fighting in the Strip,” the military added, noting that a reservist brigade will be replacing the paratroopers in the Golan and southern Syria.
Videos released by the IDF showed Israeli troops conducting patrols in Syrian territories, carrying out raids and blowing up sites of the former Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
The IDF invaded the buffer zone just hours after the fall of the Assad regime last December. It established nine strategic posts there. The military also launched hundreds of strikes against the country, destroying nearly all of the SAA’s combat capabilities.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in February that southern Syria must be completely demilitarized, warning that Israel would not accept the presence of the forces of the country’s new Islamist-led interim government close to its territory. The primer also warned the government against attacking the Druze, vowing to defend the minority.
Earlier this month, the IDF launched a series of strikes on Syria, including one that hit the vicinity of the presidential palace in Damascus, as a message to interim president Ahmad Sharaa in response to an attack by government forces against the Druze.
Despite the escalation, recent airports revealed that the two sides were in fact engaged in direct talks mediated by the United Arab Emirates.
Syria’s new rulers clearly do not pose any threat to Israel. In fact, A letter sent by the country’s foreign ministry to the United States State Department last month, seen by Reuters, said, “We will not allow Syria to become a source of threat to any party, including Israel.”
Still, this does not mean that Israel will seek peace with Syria, or withdraw from its territories. On the contrary, the IDF will likely escalate its operations in the country even more in coming months, especially if it manages to secure a clear victory in Gaza.
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and this surprises no one. isis and wide array of partisan terrorist groups never attacked israel or american assets in the 10+ years that they fought the syrian arab army.
takfiris are not even real muslims. they are closer to being crypto jews. they always acted as an extension of saudi, gulf state(s), israeli, and american and british power in the region.
mafia rule for syria ! and is making a new and magical pipeline deal with turkey ! aipac is dancing in tel-aviv !
i very much doubt a pipeline will ever be built through syria. there was a possibility of a qatar-saudi-syria-turkey pipeline 15 years ago. but qatar has settled on lng exports now. a pipeline is too problematic and would expose qatar to blackmail. syria is too unstable, erdogan is an untrustworthy snake who wants his cut, qatar and shady wahabia nearly went to war not long ago. lng exports avoid all these problems. the only viable pipelines are direct, like russia/ china.
why is qatar now paying for the syrian public sector? are the qataris crazy wahhabis or are they planning something with ursula von der leyen? ursula von der leyen wants cheap qatari gas because she wants to cut off russia.
qatar and turkey are planning a gas pipeline and that’s why all this happened.
if i was living in syria, i would seek refuge in the israeli buffer zone. not with the murderes regime in damascus.
there is no refuge in syria , the greater israel project destroyed this possibility .
the israelis and qataris are planning a gas pipeline together, religion does not hinder them in such projects, because their religion is only for the gullible paradise. privately, they all pray to the real god – money.
if you were in syria, shlomo would shoot you just for the fun of it.
why? the israelis are partners with the head hacking savages, they helped to install julani.
dumb amerikunts prefer to be sodomized by al qaeda scum—we like taliban and amerikan mulleto jizz in our anuz
shut up about assad he is gone, stop making excuses as to the destroyed state being sodomized by israel, turkey and the u.s.
the poster made no reference to assad. your premeditated splat is irrelevant to what the poster wrote.
burgerland is full of tantrum prone bullsh*ters. wouldn’t you agree ?
israel and turkey are and will be working together to build the pipeline. then russia will finally pay for its betrayal of syria. all the money will go to doha and nothing more to moscow. the day will come when the russians will burn gas again behind the finnish border because the warehouses will be full, the ships will be occupied, and they will have nowhere to put it.
russia could not be more syrian than a syrian if those syrians were not willing to fight for their country.
isis = shlomo.
instead of backstabbing and bribing for money, the syrians should have fought to get back their farm, oil and factory lands. they should have known surrendering wouldn’t help.
accept for the gazans, yemenis and maybe algerians, arabs in general are laud mouthed cowards, corrupt the core inbred tribal savages that can never see the big picture. they had a once in a 10,000 year moment with their islamic expansion. after that it’s been over a thousand years since they have done anything of consequence if they aren’t dominated by westerners and zionist, they were dominated by turks and iranians before in the past.
the alawites are facing genocide, and the druze would too, if ghassan alian had not demanded that his mountain guard have the right to defend them. russia will finally realize that betraying syria did not pay off when ursula von der leyen and thani connect germany and qatar with a gas pipeline.then russia will finally be cut off from european money and will pay with its own money what the alawites are now paying with their lives.
as long as they are there only to hunt and kill hezbollah and defend the druze from a genocidal jolani’s government, it’s okay. but will russia be in trouble when the israelis and turks build a gas pipeline together…? will putler finally repent for betraying the alawites, when their european gas money is cut off?
when is israel going to take damascus already why are they so scared to take?