Israeli forces additionally bomb weapons depots in southern Syria and the capital Damascus, Israeli media studies.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli forces have seized a buffer zone within the occupied Golan Heights established by a 1974 ceasefire settlement with Syria, after a lightning advance by Syrian opposition forces ended Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
Netanyahu stated on Sunday that the decades-old settlement had collapsed and that Syrian troopers had deserted their positions, necessitating the Israeli takeover.
“We won’t permit any hostile power to ascertain itself on our border,” he stated.
Israel captured the Golan Heights within the 1967 battle and annexed it. The worldwide group, apart from the US, views it as occupied Syrian territory.
Agricultural areas within the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights had been declared closed navy zones and a few faculties shifted to on-line lessons in anticipation of unrest.
Syrians poured into the streets echoing with celebratory gunfire on Sunday after a surprising opposition advance reached the capital of Damascus, placing an finish to the al-Assad household’s 50 years of iron rule however elevating questions on the way forward for the nation and the broader area.
Joyful crowds gathered in central squares in Damascus, waving the Syrian revolutionary flag in scenes that recalled the early days of the Arab Spring rebellion, earlier than a brutal crackdown and the rise of an armed rebellion plunged the nation into an almost 14-year battle.
Netanyahu hailed the elimination of al-Assad on Sunday as an “historic day” that adopted the blows delivered by Israel towards al-Assad’s supporters Iran and Hezbollah in its latest battle on Lebanon.
In the meantime, Israeli media stated on Sunday that the Israeli air power has bombed weapons depots in southern Syria and Damascus to forestall opposition teams from seizing them.
“We attacked ammunition depots in southern Syria and within the Damascus airport space for fears they may fall into the fingers of armed teams and native factions,” the Israeli public broadcaster KAN quoted an unnamed Israeli safety official as saying.
“Israel is working to thwart any potential threats and stop any injury to its air superiority in Syria,” the official added.
Israeli each day Yedioth Ahronoth stated weapons depots and surface-to-surface missile stockpiles had been the targets of Israeli assaults in Syria, with out offering additional particulars.
Israel has often focused weapons shipments and navy installations in Syria all through the nation’s battle, citing considerations over the attainable switch of superior weaponry to hostile teams, together with Hezbollah and Iran-backed militias.
An Related Press journalist in Damascus reported air assaults within the space of the Mazzeh navy airport, southwest of the capital on Sunday.
The airport has beforehand been hit in Israeli air assaults, nevertheless it was not instantly clear who launched Sunday’s assault.
The Israeli navy refused to touch upon the studies and Israel typically doesn’t publicly declare accountability for assaults in Syria.
