Attacks on arms centres, alleged chemical weapons facilities, and military air and sea resources are essentially defensive in nature, Israel claims
Israel i soldiers cross the security fence moving towards the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israel i-annexed Golan Heights from Syria . Recent events have restored Israel ’s position as the region’s pre-eminent military force. Photograph: Matias Delacroix/APhas already acted to destroy Syria n military capabilities and seize territory along the Golan Heights border, claiming its actions are defensive in nature.
There was almost no opposition to the unprecedented waves of air strikes and, because almost all positions had been abandoned, there were very few casualties. Decades of painstaking intelligence-gathering paid off and the execution was precise, Israel believes.For years the Assad family regime, more recently as part of Iran’s “axis of resistance”, had been Israel’s bitterest enemy. Now, within a matter of days, the military threat it posed was eliminated.
Netanyahu informed the US that IDF forces would remain in the buffer zone “until a force capable of enforcing the separation agreement is established”. Israel described the military manoeuvre as temporary, but temporary in this region tends to become permanent. Israel’s 1967 occupation of the West Bank is a case in point.
There is also mounting international pressure on Israel to withdraw from the demilitarised zone. Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, stated: “The regional powers do not want Syria to descend into chaos.”
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