(12 Dec 2024)
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Israeli-occupied Golan Heights – 12 December 2024
1. Israeli army vehicles flying the Israeli flag driving in the buffer zone separating Israeli-occupied Golan Heights with Syria
2. Wide of de-militarized buffer zone on the left, border fence and Israeli-occupied Golan Heights
3. Various of Israeli army vehicles driving in the buffer zone towards the fence
4. Wide of border area
5. Long shot of Syrian flag painted on the roof of the Syrian border post inside the buffer zone
6. Israeli vehicles moving along the fence
7. Wide of border area
STORYLINE:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli forces will remain in a Syrian buffer zone until a new force on the other side of the border can guarantee security.
After the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Israeli forces pushed into a buffer zone that had been established after the 1973 Mideast war.
The military says it has seized additional strategic points nearby.
Israeli officials have said the move is temporary, but Netanyahu’s conditions could take months or even years to fulfil as Syria charts its post-Assad future, raising the prospect of an open-ended Israeli presence in the country.
Netanyahu’s office said in a statement Thursday that Assad’s overthrow by jihadi rebels created a vacuum on the border.
The statement added that “this deployment is temporary until a force that is committed to the 1974 agreement can be established and security on our border can be guaranteed.”
The buffer zone is adjacent to the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed.
The international community, except for the United States, views the Golan as occupied Syrian territory.
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