Israeli Army Radio reported on Sunday morning local time that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had moved tanks to the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria in order to deter Syrian rebels after it became clear that the Assad regime had collapsed. Ta.
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad reportedly fled the capital Damascus on Sunday, Breitbart News reported. Unconfirmed social media reports suggest he was on the plane that apparently crashed.
On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces announced that it had strengthened Israeli positions in the Golan Heights, a plateau that Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War. shelling Israeli villages).
On Sunday, Israel Army Radio reported that the Israel Defense Forces had moved tanks into the demilitarized zone between Syria and Israel. The demilitarized zone is an area where there is no military presence under the U.S. military withdrawal agreement that ended the Yom Kippur War in 1973. , Syria and Egypt launched a surprise attack on Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Syria almost took control of the Golan Heights, but then IDF reserve forces pushed them back.
Army Radio also reported that the Israel Defense Forces had set up checkpoints throughout the Golan Heights, i.e. inside Israel, to prevent Syrian rebels from attempting to cross the border and from entering Israel. Rebels control Quneitra province, which borders Israel.
A few years ago, the presence of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in the same area raised Israeli alarm, but none was as aggressive as that unfolding with the fall of the Assad regime.
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