The demonstrations were held on Monday in the towns of Madinat al-Salam and Khan Alnabe, with participants chanting slogans against Netanyahu and the occupying Tel Aviv regime.
They expressed their protest against the illegal deployment of Israeli forces in southern Syria and lashed out at Zionist groups’ offensive policies against Syria.
Protesters cried out “Israel, we’ll get out of Syria,” and called for the full withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from southern Syria.
Meanwhile, locals are planning to hold rallies in Jasim town and elsewhere on Tuesday with a show of strong condemnation of foreign intervention in Syria’s domestic issues and abusing national sovereignty on Tuesday.
Organizers said future gatherings will focus on the complete rejection of intervention in Arab countries in internal issues and the utmost respect for the integrity of its territory and the independence of decision-making.
A rally in protest will arise as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the regime’s troops will maintain an indefinite military presence at the top of Hermon and adjacent security zones.
Mount Harmon, known in Arabic as Jabal al-Sheikh, is a huge gathering of snow-capped mountain peaks that tower above the Syrian-Lebanon border.
It overlooks the countryside of Damascus as well as the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria during the six-day war of 1967.
The Israeli forces “remained at Mount Harmon and the top of the buffer zone, protecting the settlement and hampering the threat,” Netanyahu said at the boarding course graduation ceremony for Holon, south of Tel Aviv.
He called on the new Syrian government to implement “full demilitarization” of South Syria, including the provinces of Quenitra, Dara’a and Suwayda.
Netanyahu also said that Israel “does not allow” the “Hyatt Taharil al-Sham, or troops belonging to the new Syrian army, would enter the area south of Damascus.
The extremist faction led by Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham overthrew the government of Bashar Al-Assad on December 8, 2024.
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.
Israel has been widely slammed for the end of the 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria, and is exploiting the chaos of the Arab state to seize the land in the wake of Assad’s downfall.
The occupied Golan Heights buffer zone was created by the United Nations after the 1973 Arab-Israel War. Since then, UN forces of around 1,100 men have patrolled the area.
Stephen Dujaric, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said that the long-term presence of Israeli soldiers in December was violating the deal that established a buffer zone.
The agreement “should be respected, and the occupation is an occupation and whether it lasts for a week, a month or a year, it remains a profession,” Dujarric noted.
MNA