Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the regime change in Syria is fuelling the need to bolster the Israeli population in the region.
Israel 's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the overthrowing of the Assad regime in Syria is fuelling the need to bolster Israel i settlements in the occupied Golan Heights .
"Strengthening the Golan is strengthening the state of Israel, and it is especially important at this time," he said in a statement on Sunday.Shortly after Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's overthrow by rebel forces, Israel ordered its troops to enter a demilitarised buffer zone situated along the east of Syria's Golan Heights plateau it controls.
More than 20,000 Israeli settlers already live in the Golan Heights, along with Druze communities — many of whom identify as Syrian. Hundreds of air strikes have been launched into Syria, with the Israel Defense Forces claiming it was targeting weapons stockpiles and military infrastructure abandoned by the former Syrian government's forces to ensure they did not fall into rebel hands.The collapse of the Assad regime has fragmented Syria's territory, with several armed groups now jostling for control and international players anxious to preserve their regional interests.
The deployment has been criticised as an opportunistic land grab by Arab countries, and France has joined calls for Israel to withdraw., which led the campaign to topple Bashar al-Assad, criticised the Israeli air strikes and deployment into the buffer zone."Syria's war-weary condition, after years of conflict and war, does not allow for new confrontations," Abu Mohammed al-Golani said in an interview with Syrian media.
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