Syrian rebels with hyperlinks to Al-Qaeda and ISIS managed to quickly topple – virtually with none resistance – the decades-long Assad regime and entered the capital Damascus, and declared on state TV that Syria is now “free”.
That led neighbor Israel to instantly act in two alternative ways about it:
To start with, Israel confirmed that it’s finishing up air strikes on Syria to focus on suspected chemical weapons and missile websites.
Overseas minister Gideon Saarsaid the target is to forestall these weapons methods from falling ‘into the fingers of extremists’.
Dozens of Israeli air strikes happened prior to now two days, together with on a rocket improvement website in Damascus.
However that was not all – floor forces have additionally been deployed.
BBC reported:
“Additionally on Monday, the Israeli army launched pictures of its troops who crossed from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights into the demilitarized buffer zone in Syria the place UN peacekeepers are primarily based.
It comes a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu introduced that the army had quickly seized management of the so-called Space of Separation, saying the 1974 disengagement settlement with Syria had “collapsed” with the insurgent takeover of the nation.”
It is a historic day for the Center East. The collapse of the Assad regime, the tyranny in Damascus, gives nice alternative but in addition is fraught with vital risks.
We ship a hand of peace to all these past our border in Syria: to the Druze, to the Kurds, to the… pic.twitter.com/yJZE3AZZJn
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) December 8, 2024
Watch: Israeli Air Drive destruction of Al-Mezzeh airport close to Damascus.
❗️⚔️ – Netanyahu ordered the destruction of Al-Mezzeh airport, formally often called Mezzeh army airport, situated on the western outskirts of Damascus.
Israel has attacked air bases, protection methods, intelligence infrastructure and army and authorities amenities in… pic.twitter.com/r7ziokwX28
— The Informant (@theinformant_x) December 8, 2024
Watch: Israeli Air Drive hit 150 targets at this time.
BREAKING
Israel’s military radio is reporting that the IDF has struck over 150 targets in Syria at this time. pic.twitter.com/MAUEpr1Tdb
— Open Supply Intel (@Osint613) December 9, 2024
Watch: Israeli Protection Forces footage of operations in Syria.
IDF footage of operations in Syria. pic.twitter.com/sYQ84dLG2d
— Israel MyChannel (@IsraelMychannel) December 9, 2024
The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau about 40 miles from Damascus, a key strategic space in army phrases as a pure protection line towards any floor army strike from Syria.
It’s additionally a key supply of water, with drilling oil websites and a fertile soil for rising vineyards and orchards and elevating livestock.
“Talking at a information convention on Monday, Saar stated the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) was solely making ‘a really restricted and short-term step’ taken for ‘safety causes’.”
The minister additionally stated Israel has little interest in Syrian inside affairs, however was involved solely with defending its residents.
Watch: Israeli forces reportedly advancing past Golan Heights additional into Syria.
ISRAEL ENTERS SYRIAN TERRITORY BEYOND THE GOLAN HEIGHTS
Sputnik’s unique footage reveals Israeli tanks and bulldozers breaching a wall on the border of the Golan Heights area, getting into Syrian soil past the Golan Heights for the primary time in additional than 50 years. https://t.co/wg8GorScIv pic.twitter.com/wwAIedFDIZ
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) December 9, 2024
“On Sunday, Netanyahu insisted Israel would ‘ship a hand of peace’ to Syrians who wished to dwell in peace with Israel. He stated the IDF presence within the buffer zone was a “short-term defensive place till an acceptable association is discovered”.
‘If we are able to set up neighborly relations and peaceable relations with the brand new forces rising in Syria, that’s our want. But when we don’t, we are going to do no matter it takes to defend the State of Israel and the border of Israel’, he stated.”
1000’s of Israeli settlers now dwell within the space alongside 20,000 Syrians.
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