Netanyahu said at the military graduation ceremony on Sunday that Israel will maintain its position as a “defense measure” and will remain in its position as long as necessary.
“We will not allow HTS or new Syrian forces to enter the territory south of Damascus. We will request the full demilitarization of Southern Syria in the provinces of Quenitra, Daraa and Sweida. ” Netanyahu quoted as saying.
The Israeli Prime Minister also said the regime’s troops remain stationed in so-called “buffer zones” within the occupied Syrian Golan Heights that were seized after the collapse of President Bashar al-Assad.
Former Al-Qaeda affiliate HTS ruled Damascus in a spectacular attack in early December, urging cautious Israel to move its troops into unsupervised demilitarized zones within Syria.
The extremist factions led by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham overthrew the Assad government on December 8th last year.
Following the downfall of Assad’s government, Israeli forces have launched airstrikes on military facilities, facilities and arsenals belonging to Syria’s now abolished troops.
Israeli military aircraft launched a series of strikes on Tuesday against several weapons sites in Syria in its latest attacks.
Israeli forces say the unmanned aerial vehicles have attacked weapons that are said to belong to the former Syrian regime in the Sasa district of Lif Dimasik province, southwest of the capital Damascus and near the height of the occupied Golan. Ta.
Israel, which has been occupying Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, has taken over the Syrian side of southern Syria known as Jabal al-Sheikh, known in Arabic, and then in the Syrian side of southwest Syria. It has broken into. , and some Syrian towns and villages.
Israel is also being scrutinized for the end of the 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria and the exploitation of Arab chaos following the fall of Assad to seize the land.
The attacks of the occupying regime elicited widespread condemnation for violating Syrian sovereignty and devastating assets belonging to the Arab state.
The Israeli Prime Minister argued elsewhere in his remarks on Sunday that he would not tolerate the threat to the Druzes in southern Syria.
Israeli media recently reported that the regime ministers met to discuss a plot classified to promote Syrian divisions after the collapse of Assad’s government.
According to a Press TV report, the regional security source explained in the plot last month was that Israel would already split Syria into three blocks and establish military and strategic ties with Kurds in Syria’s northeastern part of Syria. It was quoted as saying that he is planning to do so. In the south, he entrusts Assad to power to Damascus.