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Israel ‘crossed the lines of engagement’

Israel struck dozens of sites in Syria overnight with airstrikes, despite Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani saying his Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group was not interested in conflict with Israel.

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Israel ‘crossed the lines of engagement’
Says Syria’s rebel leader as dozens of airstrikes hit Syrian military sites

Israel struck dozens of sites in Syria overnight with airstrikes, despite Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani saying his Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group was not interested in conflict with Israel.

"Israeli arguments have become weak and no longer justify their recent violations. The Israelis have clearly crossed the lines of engagement in Syria, which poses a threat of unwarranted escalation in the region," Sharaa said in an interview published on the website of Syria TV, a pro-opposition channel.

"Syria's war-weary condition, after years of conflict and war, does not allow for new confrontations. The priority at this stage is reconstruction and stability, not being drawn into disputes that could lead to further destruction."

He also said diplomatic solutions were the only way to ensure security and stability and that "uncalculated military adventures" were not wanted, reports Reuters.

Israel has launched 61 strikes on Syrian territory over the past few hours, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said early yesterday.

The latest airstrikes follow a statement by Israel's defence minister, Israel Katz, that Israeli troops, who seized the Golan Heights buffer zone with Syria last week, would remain for the winter on Mount Hermon in positions they occupied last week.

Katz's office said in a statement that "due to what is happening in Syria, there is enormous security importance to our holding on to the peak".​

 

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Israel to double population in annexed Golan

As Islamist-led rebel forces ousts Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the Israeli prime minister ordered troops to seize the demilitarised zone between the two countries’ forces on the Golan Heights...

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Israel to double population in annexed Golan
Israel to double population in annexed Golan 16 December, 2024, 05:32

The Israeli government approved on Sunday a plan to increase the population of the annexed Golan Heights, while insisting it had no intention of confronting Syria after seizing a UN-monitored buffer zone.

As Islamist-led rebel forces swept Syrian president Bashar al-Assad out of power in the past week, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered troops to seize the demilitarised zone between the two countries’ forces on the Golan Heights.

On Sunday, his office said that the government approved a plan to double the population on the Israeli-held Golan Heights.

The government ‘unanimously approved’ the $11 million ‘plan for the demographic development of the Golan... in light of the war and the new front in Syria and the desire to double the population’, Netanyahu’s office said.

Israel has occupied most of the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau, since 1967 and annexed that area in 1981, a move recognised only by the United States.

Netanyahu said, ‘The strengthening of the Golan is that of the State of Israel, and it is particularly important at this time. We will continue to establish ourselves there, develop it and settle there.’

The occupied Golan is home to around 30,000 Israelis and about 23,000 Druze Arabs, whose presence predates the occupation and most of whom retain Syrian citizenship.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar swiftly denounced the Israeli move.

Riyadh’s foreign ministry expressed ‘condemnation and denunciation’ of the plan in a statement, calling it part of the ‘continued sabotage of opportunities to restore security and stability in Syria’.

Doha said the Israeli declaration was a ‘new episode in a series of Israeli aggressions on Syrian territories and a blatant violation of international law’.

Last week, Netanyahu declared that the annexed Golan would be Israeli ‘for eternity’.

That followed an order he gave for troops to cross into the UN-patrolled buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces since 1974. Troops have also operated in some areas outside the buffer zone ‘to maintain stability’, according to the military.

Israel portrayed the move, which drew international condemnation, as a temporary and defensive measure after what Netanyahu’s office called a ‘vacuum on Israel’s border and in the buffer zone’, following Assad’s fall.

A UN official in New York confirmed to AFP that peacekeeping force UNDOF ‘has noted a number of daily instances of the IDF (Israeli army) operating to the east of the buffer zone’.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered troops to ‘prepare to remain’ in the buffer zone throughout the winter months.

In the aftermath of Assad’s overthrow, Israel launched hundreds of strikes on Syria targeting strategic military sites and weapons, including chemical weapons.

On Sunday, the Israeli premier said his country had ‘no interest in confronting Syria. Israel’s policy toward Syria will be determined by the evolving reality on the ground’.

In a video statement following a phone call with US president-elect Donald Trump, Netanyahu said Syria had attacked Israel in the past and allowed others including Lebanese Hezbollah to do so from its territory.

‘To ensure that what happened in the past does not happen again, we have taken a series of intensive actions in recent days,’ he said.

‘Within a few days, we destroyed capabilities that the Assad regime had built over decades.’

The Islamist rebel leader whose group spearheaded the offensive that toppled Assad on Saturday accused Israel of ‘a new unjustified escalation in the region’ by entering the buffer zone.

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, who now goes by his real name Ahmed al-Sharaa, said, ‘The general exhaustion in Syria after years of war and conflict does not allow us to enter new conflicts’.

Washington in 2019 became the first and only country to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, during Trump’s first term.

Israel has previously announced plans to increase the number of settlers in the Golan, with the government of then-premier Naftali Bennett approving a $317 million, five-year programme to double the settler population in December 2021.

At the time, the Israeli population in the occupied Golan Heights was around 25,000.​

 

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[Mainerik]

Note the Al-Qaeda flag behind him and CIA flag the Zionists chose for him......lol

Pakistani online jihadist migrants got no clue wtf is going on.

They are morons sadly, we all have our shares.

 

[Lulldapull]

Israel to double population in annexed Golan

As Islamist-led rebel forces ousts Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the Israeli prime minister ordered troops to seize the demilitarised zone between the two countries’ forces on the Golan Heights...

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Israel to double population in annexed Golan
Israel to double population in annexed Golan 16 December, 2024, 05:32

The Israeli government approved on Sunday a plan to increase the population of the annexed Golan Heights, while insisting it had no intention of confronting Syria after seizing a UN-monitored buffer zone.

As Islamist-led rebel forces swept Syrian president Bashar al-Assad out of power in the past week, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered troops to seize the demilitarised zone between the two countries’ forces on the Golan Heights.

On Sunday, his office said that the government approved a plan to double the population on the Israeli-held Golan Heights.

The government ‘unanimously approved’ the $11 million ‘plan for the demographic development of the Golan... in light of the war and the new front in Syria and the desire to double the population’, Netanyahu’s office said.

Israel has occupied most of the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau, since 1967 and annexed that area in 1981, a move recognised only by the United States.

Netanyahu said, ‘The strengthening of the Golan is that of the State of Israel, and it is particularly important at this time. We will continue to establish ourselves there, develop it and settle there.’

The occupied Golan is home to around 30,000 Israelis and about 23,000 Druze Arabs, whose presence predates the occupation and most of whom retain Syrian citizenship.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar swiftly denounced the Israeli move.

Riyadh’s foreign ministry expressed ‘condemnation and denunciation’ of the plan in a statement, calling it part of the ‘continued sabotage of opportunities to restore security and stability in Syria’.

Doha said the Israeli declaration was a ‘new episode in a series of Israeli aggressions on Syrian territories and a blatant violation of international law’.

Last week, Netanyahu declared that the annexed Golan would be Israeli ‘for eternity’.

That followed an order he gave for troops to cross into the UN-patrolled buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces since 1974. Troops have also operated in some areas outside the buffer zone ‘to maintain stability’, according to the military.

Israel portrayed the move, which drew international condemnation, as a temporary and defensive measure after what Netanyahu’s office called a ‘vacuum on Israel’s border and in the buffer zone’, following Assad’s fall.

A UN official in New York confirmed to AFP that peacekeeping force UNDOF ‘has noted a number of daily instances of the IDF (Israeli army) operating to the east of the buffer zone’.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered troops to ‘prepare to remain’ in the buffer zone throughout the winter months.

In the aftermath of Assad’s overthrow, Israel launched hundreds of strikes on Syria targeting strategic military sites and weapons, including chemical weapons.

On Sunday, the Israeli premier said his country had ‘no interest in confronting Syria. Israel’s policy toward Syria will be determined by the evolving reality on the ground’.

In a video statement following a phone call with US president-elect Donald Trump, Netanyahu said Syria had attacked Israel in the past and allowed others including Lebanese Hezbollah to do so from its territory.

‘To ensure that what happened in the past does not happen again, we have taken a series of intensive actions in recent days,’ he said.

‘Within a few days, we destroyed capabilities that the Assad regime had built over decades.’

The Islamist rebel leader whose group spearheaded the offensive that toppled Assad on Saturday accused Israel of ‘a new unjustified escalation in the region’ by entering the buffer zone.

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, who now goes by his real name Ahmed al-Sharaa, said, ‘The general exhaustion in Syria after years of war and conflict does not allow us to enter new conflicts’.

Washington in 2019 became the first and only country to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, during Trump’s first term.

Israel has previously announced plans to increase the number of settlers in the Golan, with the government of then-premier Naftali Bennett approving a $317 million, five-year programme to double the settler population in December 2021.

At the time, the Israeli population in the occupied Golan Heights was around 25,000.​

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They are morons sadly, we all have our shares.

I can't take it anymore. We're fukked because of jahils in all our countries.

 

[Mainerik]

I can't take it anymore. We're fukked because of jahils in all our countries.

It's a joke at this point. How can we ask others for help when we can't even help ourselves?

 

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Turkey for providing military support to new Syria govt

Turkish defence minister Yasar Guler said on Sunday that his country was ready to provide military support to Syria’s new Islamist-led government set up by rebels who overthrew Bashar al-Assad if it requested it.

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Turkey for providing military support to new Syria govt
Agence France-Presse . Istanbul 15 December, 2024, 19:15

A rebel fighter stands guard as Syrian students rally near the campus of the Damascus University in the Syrian capital on December 15, 2024. | AFP photo

Turkish defence minister Yasar Guler said on Sunday that his country was ready to provide military support to Syria’s new government set up by rebels who overthrew Bashar al-Assad if it requested it.

He said the new leadership should be given ‘a chance’ and that Turkey was ‘ready to provide the necessary support’ if needed, in remarks reported by state news agency Anadolu and other Turkish media outlets.

‘It is necessary to see what the new administration will do. We think it is necessary to give them a chance,’ Guler said of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebel alliance, which is rooted in Al-Qaeda’s Syria branch and designated a ‘terrorist’ organisation by many Western governments.

HTS has sought to moderate its rhetoric and its transitional government has insisted the rights of all Syrians would be protected along with the rule of law.

‘We have military training and cooperation agreements with many countries. We are ready to provide the necessary support if the new administration requests it,’ the Turkish defence minister said, without specifying what might be provided.

The new administration, Guler said, had pledged to ‘respect all government institutions, the UN and other international organisations’ and promised to report any evidence of chemical weapons to the OPCW watchdog.

Turkey’s top priority in Syria was to rid the country of Kurdish separatist fighters -- a goal which was supported by the new government, Guler said.

‘In this new period, the PKK/YPG terrorist organisation will be eliminated in Syria, sooner or later. Both we and the new administration in Syria want this,’ he said.

‘We have no problems with our Kurdish brothers living in Iraq and Syria. Our problem is only and exclusively with terrorists.’

The YPG (Syrian Kurdish People’s Defence Units) makes up the bulk of the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces), a key US ally that defeated the Islamic State group’s self-declared caliphate in Syria in 2019.

Ankara views the YPG as an extension of its domestic foe, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), which has led a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state.

By extension, it sees the SDF as a terror outfit, setting it sharply at odds with Washington, which has called the group ‘crucial’ for preventing a resurgence of IS group jihadists in Syria.

‘Our priority (in Syria) is the liquidation of the PKK/YPG terrorist organisation,’ Guler said.

‘We have expressed this to our American friends. We expect them to re-evaluate their positions.’

His remarks echoed comments on Friday by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who said Turkey would give the new Syrian government time to tackle the problem.

‘The elimination of the YPG is our strategic goal. We will wait for our brothers in Syria to eliminate the threat in their own land,’ he told the private NTV channel, saying the Kurdish group’s leadership ‘must leave the country’.​