Publish date29 Jan 2025 - 11:21
Story Code : 665797

Israeli war minister says troops will remain in Syrian territory indefinitely

The Israeli minister of military affairs, Israel Katz, says the regime forces who have seized grounds in the so-called buffer zone will remain there indefinitely.
Israeli war minister says troops will remain in Syrian territory indefinitely
“The Israeli military forces will remain at the summit of the Hermon, and the security zone indefinitely to ensure the security of the communities of the Golan Heights and the north, and all the residents” of the Israeli-occupied territories, said the Israeli official during a meeting with the regime forces stationed on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon.

Mount Hermon, known as Jabal al-Shaykh in Arabic, is a huge cluster of snowcapped mountain peaks towering above the Syria-Lebanon border.

It overlooks the Damascus countryside as well as the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.

Katz also said Israel would not allow what he described as hostile forces to establish themselves in southern Syria.

Israeli military forces captured the UN-patrolled buffer zone in the Golan Heights hours after armed groups took control of the Syrian capital of Damascus on December 8.

Israel has been widely and vehemently condemned over termination of the 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria, and exploiting the chaos in the Arab nation in the wake of Assad’s downfall to make a land grab.

The buffer zone in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights was created by the United Nations after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.  A UN force of about 1,100 troops had patrolled the area since then.
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