{"id":300317,"date":"2024-12-13T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T08:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300317"},"modified":"2024-12-14T06:35:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T06:35:04","slug":"israeli-troops-push-deeper-into-syria-hinder-un-peacekeepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300317","title":{"rendered":"Israeli troops push deeper into Syria, hinder UN peacekeepers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Dec 12, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Israeli forces have advanced further into southern Syria after their ground troops moved deeper into the Syrian Golan Heights, effectively expanding their occupation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sources said Israeli soldiers entered the town of al-Hurriya in Quneitra province on Thursday as part of the regime’s unprecedented onslaught\u00a0on Syria following\u00a0 President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster.<\/p>\n

Local sources said\u00a0Israeli forces also carried out a forced evacuation of the residents of the village of Rasem al-Ruwadi in the region.<\/p>\n

Israeli occupying forces on Wednesday evening stormed the towns of Ruwaihinah and Umm Batna in the central countryside of Quneitra as well.<\/p>\n

Residents of the town said the occupying regime forces asked them to evacuate their homes to annex them to the so-called buffer zones.\u00a0The incursion involved tanks and infantry units, during which several houses were searched.<\/p>\n

It came after\u00a0Israeli minister of military affairs Israel Katz\u00a0said the regime is planning a “sterile defense zone” in southern\u00a0Syria in violation of the 1974 disengagement agreement between the two sides.<\/p>\n

Community leaders and residents of Quneitra have refused to evacuate their villages. They have collectively decided\u00a0to remain in their homes in the face of Israeli advances.<\/p>\n

Since the fall of\u00a0President Assad,\u00a0the Israeli regime has carried out almost 500 airstrikes across Syria, targeting critical civilian and military infrastructures<\/p>\n

Several regional nations have\u00a0denounced the Israeli aggression, reaffirming their commitment to protect the Arab country\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, a UN source said Israeli troops were obstructing the work of UN peacekeepers in the occupied Golan Heights.<\/p>\n

He explained that the Israeli army has transferred forces to the area, restricting the movement of peacekeeping forces significantly and hindering their operational tasks.<\/p>\n

After the fall of\u00a0President Assad\u00a0at the weekend, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the cancellation of the 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria.<\/p>\n

He ordered the deployment of Israeli forces in the buffer zone in the Golan, which separates the occupied part of the heights from the rest of Syrian territory.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu also said the Golan Heights, an area Israel captured during the 1967 war with Syria and has occupied ever since, would be \u201cforever part of Israel\u201d, thanking US\u00a0President-elect Donald Trump once again for supporting the regime\u2019s occupation in 2019.<\/p>\n

The United Nations and most of the international community recognize the Golan as part of Syria.<\/p>\n

The Israeli prime minister has\u00a0noted that he had promised on October 9, 2023 to \u201cchange the face of the Middle East\u201d.<\/p>\n

Israeli soldiers have reportedly taken positions 10 km beyond the buffer zone in the town of Qatana, just 25 km from the Syrian capital.<\/p>\n

Many Syrians and others watching the fast-moving pace of events say Netanyahu is using this moment of change in their country to permanently seize further territory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are saying they will give it back, but they are already occupying the Golan Heights which they haven\u2019t given back. What would make you believe they will give this back?\u201d Haid Haid, a senior consulting associate fellow at Chatham House, told Middle East Eye.<\/p>\n

Rime Allaf, a Syrian writer and political analyst, posted on X that Israel\u2019s actions are \u201can illegal and immoral literal invasion of yet more land & a theft of Syrians\u2019 right to their own army, destroyed by Israel the minute the monstrous regime fell\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ameer Makhoul, a Palestinian activist and writer, said Israel\u2019s \u201cflagrant violations\u201d were being carried out with little outcry from the international community.<\/p>\n

He believes the goal is to make the new Syrian government \u201caccept the fait accompli that it imposes through the expanded occupation and by destroying Syria forces and cancelling its sovereignty\u201d.<\/p>\n

Israel has wiped out\u00a0Syrian naval vessels,\u00a0sea-to-sea missiles,\u00a0helicopters and planes, including the\u00a0entire fleet of MiG-29 fighter jets and stockpiles of ammunition in attacks on at least five air bases.<\/p>\n

The regime says it\u00a0is destroying any means by which militant\u00a0groups in Syria could attack Israel.\u00a0But Haid said even before the Israeli strikes this week, Syria would have been unable to effectively attack Israel with its existing military infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Now that Israel has essentially destroyed any capabilities it had to strike, he again questioned why it would need to take positions in or beyond the demilitarized zone.<\/p>\n

He also pointed to reports that Israel and militant\u00a0groups in Syria have previously come to successful arrangements whereby Israel provided emergency aid and medical care to militants so long as the groups did not attack the Zionist regime.<\/p>\n

He said with militants and Takfiri groups in control, Syria\u00a0has now been left defenseless.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem now is no matter what happens, the Syrians might not be able to protect themselves, not only against Israel, but against other threats that might be domestic,\u201d Haid said.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu said late on Tuesday that Israel won\u2019t interfere in internal affairs in Syria.<\/p>\n

Some observers said they don\u2019t buy his promise, saying they believe Israel, in addition to seizing territory for keeps, is trying to halt a functional, post-Assad Syrian state before it can even start.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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