Since Bashar Al-Assad’s regime fell on 8 December 2024, Israel has waged a campaign of destabilisation and destruction in Syria.
While flagrantly violating international law and disregarding Syria’s sovereignty, Israel has been recklessly bombing the country and illegally seizing more Syrian land by force.
Immediately after Assad’s ouster, the Israeli air force and navy started carrying out hundreds of strikes, which took out the remainder of the fallen regime’s military.
While many Syrians across the country were celebrating Assad’s fall, Tel Aviv not only kept its control of the occupied Golan Heights, but Israeli ground forces quickly usurped control of more land in southwestern Syria, creating a “buffer zone”. Israel maintains that this is all necessary to protect its national security.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded the demilitarisation of southern Syria and warned that the new Syrian government’s forces must stay outside of this part of Syria, while Defence Minister Israel Katz has vowed to keep his country’s occupying forces in Syria for an indefinite period of time. In late February, Katz declared that Israel “will not allow southern Syria to become southern Lebanon”. ….more
