Assad revealed
chemical weapons caches to Israel
Israel says it has carried out strikes on chemical weapons and missile storage sites in Syria, describing the action as a preventive measure to ensure the safety of citizens after the fall of Assad.
According to Tehran, information based on Iranian military intelligence sources, Assad revealed chemical weapons caches to Israel in exchxget for political asylum.
The opposition groups led by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, who captured Damascus.
Overcome the weekend, people have "an extreme ideology of radical Islam," Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said.
"We are acting so that they "do not fall into the hands of extremists," he said at a press briefing on Monday.
The overthrow of longtime Syrian leader Assad, after a dramatic territorial advance by rebel forces, sent shockwaves through the Middle East and made neighboring Israel particularly suspicious.
While the Syrian government was officially in a state of war with Assad, the emergence of a new Islamist power base in its immediate vicinity adds an additional threat after more than a year of struggle against militant groups supported by Iran.
Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he had ordered the Israeli army to take control of a buffer zone east of the border with Syria, an area that, according to the military, extends over about 400 square kilometers.
Gila Gamliel, a member of Netanyahu's security cabinet, told Tel Aviv's 103 FM radio station that the entire area "and beyond" was now under Israeli control. Sa'ar disputed this claim, saying that the troops were positioned less than three kilometers from the border.
In 2013, Syria agreed with Russia to export and destroy its arsenal of chemical weapons. However, Israel believes that Assad retained some of these weapons, which the outgoing president had used to suppress the protests that broke out during the Arab Spring in 2011.
The Golan, a territory located between Israel and Syria, was largely conquered by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967, then annexed.
Israeli sovereignty over this territory has been recognized by the United States, but not by other world powers.
Separately, the Israeli military said that a drone, probably from Yemen, hit a residential building in the Yavne area, near the port of Ashdod, in southern Israel.
The Houthis, based in Yemen and allies of Iran, have been firing drones and other weapons at Israel since the start of the war against Hamas in October 2023.
Both the Houthis and Hamas are considered terrorist organizations by the United States.
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chemical weapons caches to Israel
Israel says it has carried out strikes on chemical weapons and missile storage sites in Syria, describing the action as a preventive measure to ensure the safety of citizens after the fall of Assad.
According to Tehran, information based on Iranian military intelligence sources, Assad revealed chemical weapons caches to Israel in exchxget for political asylum.
The opposition groups led by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, who captured Damascus.
Overcome the weekend, people have "an extreme ideology of radical Islam," Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said.
"We are acting so that they "do not fall into the hands of extremists," he said at a press briefing on Monday.
The overthrow of longtime Syrian leader Assad, after a dramatic territorial advance by rebel forces, sent shockwaves through the Middle East and made neighboring Israel particularly suspicious.
While the Syrian government was officially in a state of war with Assad, the emergence of a new Islamist power base in its immediate vicinity adds an additional threat after more than a year of struggle against militant groups supported by Iran.
Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he had ordered the Israeli army to take control of a buffer zone east of the border with Syria, an area that, according to the military, extends over about 400 square kilometers.
Gila Gamliel, a member of Netanyahu's security cabinet, told Tel Aviv's 103 FM radio station that the entire area "and beyond" was now under Israeli control. Sa'ar disputed this claim, saying that the troops were positioned less than three kilometers from the border.
In 2013, Syria agreed with Russia to export and destroy its arsenal of chemical weapons. However, Israel believes that Assad retained some of these weapons, which the outgoing president had used to suppress the protests that broke out during the Arab Spring in 2011.
The Golan, a territory located between Israel and Syria, was largely conquered by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967, then annexed.
Israeli sovereignty over this territory has been recognized by the United States, but not by other world powers.
Separately, the Israeli military said that a drone, probably from Yemen, hit a residential building in the Yavne area, near the port of Ashdod, in southern Israel.
The Houthis, based in Yemen and allies of Iran, have been firing drones and other weapons at Israel since the start of the war against Hamas in October 2023.
Both the Houthis and Hamas are considered terrorist organizations by the United States.
#Israel #USA #Syria
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