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To: Les H who wrote (45175)	3/3/2025 11:50:16 AM
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Israel in Syria: ‘Permanent’ fortifications and attempts to win over residents Israeli forces continue to solidify their presence within Syrian territory, cutting off farmers and herders from their livelihoods and carrying out airstrikes and raids on former regime military sites. By Walid Al Nofal, Emad Albasiri Israel’s invasion of southern Syria, which began hours after opposition forces toppled the Assad regime on December 8, 2024, appears to have no end in sight. Tel Aviv’s forces have not only seized control of the demilitarized border zone along the occupied Golan Heights—violating a 1974 armistice agreement—but advanced beyond it, pushing into Daraa and Quneitra provinces, as well as Mount Hermon on the Syrian-Lebanese border. In the most recent escalation, Israeli warplanes ]struck a number of former regime military sites in Daraa and Reef Dimashq provinces on Tuesday night. At the same time, Israeli ground forces advanced to the al-Majahid barracks near al-Bakar, a village in the western Daraa countryside. Syria Direct’s correspondent Emad Albasiri, who visited the al-Majahid barracks hours later on Wednesday morning, found Israeli forces “blew up an old piece of artillery from 1979 and destroyed underground [cement] blocks” before withdrawing. The overnight operation appears to be an extension of efforts to systematically “destroy the infrastructure of the new Syrian army,” he added. When Israel first launched its incursion on December 8, it struck hundreds of military sites and assets across the country, wiping out much of its arsenal in an operation it dubbed “Bashan Arrow” in reference to a biblical name for southwestern Syria. The current depth of Israel’s incursion into Syria ranges from two to 10 kilometers. Occupying forces have equipped and fortified military positions, built new roads and prevented residents from farming or grazing their livestock nearby, raising questions about how long it plans to stay. On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not allow any presence of the new Syrian army’s forces in southern Syria’s Quneitra, Daraa and Suwayda provinces. The concluding statement of Syria’s national dialogue conference on Tuesday—hours before the latest strikes—denounced Netanyahu’s statements as “provocative,” calling the incursion a “flagrant violation of Syria’s sovereignty” and demanding an “immediate and unconditional” withdrawal. link Similar to Israel's annexations of land in Occupied Territories, they cut off the agriculture first.