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for the duration of the winter due to the Jewish state’s security concerns following the fall of the Assad regime.
Following Assad’s fall, Israeli forces moved into the demilitarized zone inside Syria that was created after the 1973 Israel-Arab war. The move was to ensure that the deposed leader’s military arsenal and infrastructure could not be utilized by the extremist groups within Syria’s borders that now have more ability to reconstitute and grow due to the country’s newfound instability.
Israel’s military has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on Syria’s strategic weapons stockpile, while the U.S. has also launched dozens of airstrikes in the country targeting ISIS. Israeli officials argue they need to ensure the Assad regime’s weapons stockpiles, which notoriously could include chemical weapons, don’t fall into the hands of Hayat Tahrir al-Shams, the main group involved in overthrowing Assad. HTS is still designated by the U.S.
Critics of Israel have argued that the Jewish state has violated Syrian territorial integrity and sovereignty. France, Germany, and Spain have called on Israel to withdraw from the demilitarized zone, while the United Nations said Israel was in violation of the 1974 disengagement agreement that created the buffer zone.Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Herzi Halevi disagreed, saying they aren’t “intervening in what is happening in Syria.
Rather, “There was an enemy country here. Its army collapsed. There is a threat that terror elements will come here, and we advanced so … extreme terror elements won’t settle close to the border with us.”
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