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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on May 5 that it located and demolished “the main headquarters” of the former Syrian Arab Army (SAA) at the peak of Mount Hermon during recent operations in Syria.
The headquarters was raided by the 810th “Mountains” Regional Brigade, alongside combat engineers and paratroopers, the military said in a statement, adding that the facility included bunkers and numerous weapons, including artillery cannons, rockets and launchers, mortars, explosives, and mines.
The IDF invaded the buffer zone adjacent to the Golan Heights just hours after the fall of the Assad regime last December. It established nine strategic posts there, including two atop Mount Hermon. The military also launched hundreds of strikes against the country, destroying nearly all of the SAA’s combat capabilities.
Initially, the military described its presence in the buffer zone as a temporary and defensive measure. Nevertheless, Defense Minister Israel Katz later said that troops will remain deployed to nine army posts in the area “indefinitely.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in February that southern Syria must be completely demilitarized, warning that Israel would not accept the presence of the forces of the country’s new Islamist-led interim government close to its territory. The primer also warned the government against attacking the Druze religious minority, vowing to defend the minority.
Over the past week, the IDF launched one of its most intense waves of strikes against Syria since the start of the year in response to an attack by government forces on Druze fighters near Damascus.
One of the strikes even targeted the vicinity of the presidential palace in the Syrian capital, in what Israel said was a direct message to interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa.
Since the fall of the regime of former president Bashar al-Assad, the IDF has been steadily escalating against Syria with or without a reason. With no response from the government, Israel could move much deeper into the country once it was done with its war in the Gaza Strip.
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well done hts.
syria belongs to us shlomos, because moses had a crap there 5,000 years ago (or something) (allegedly.)
israel should take the druze like putler took the russian-speaking ukrainians. israel should take 20% of syria and destroy the rest of syria like russia in ukrajine.
there was once an old tale of a frog walking along a river bank. he met a scorpion who asked him to take him across the waters on his back. “how do i know you won’t sting me?” asked the frog. “i wouldn’t want to sting you, for then both you and i would both drown!” answered the scorpion. convinced, the frog took him on his back and headed off to the other side of the river. however, when he was halfway across, the scorpion stung the frog.
“the only thing that stood between the mass killings that we’re seeing now and the terrorists was, of course, the government of president assad and the army of syria. and right now …we’re seeing, you know, lawlessness, lack of security, starvation, poverty, and sectarian ethnic cleansing programs against particularly alawites, shia, christians, but also an attempted attack on the druze populations.” – vanessa beeley, from this week’s interview
“axis of resistance”
hehehehe
“americunt land of the free” hehehehehe
israel has every right to protect the druze if the international community does not want them to protect. just as russia had the right by natural law to protect russian-speaking ukrainians.
the world may have witnessed an escalation of slaughter of alawites and christians in early march, and amnesty international may have played a role in setting about investigating who was responsible and why it happened. but the side that gets little attention is how far western nations are willing to go to ignore the guilt of the new “post-assad” regime and giving them the responsibility to look into the situation. according to human rights lawyer prof. dan kovalik writing for
you know how beautiful israel would be if damascus and sweida were inside israel?
and as both started to sink beneath the waves the scorpion said: “i couldn’t help it! it’s my nature!” the moral of this story is when you engineer a group of fundamentalist extremists, re-brand them “freedom fighters” and then send them after the next figure on america’s most wanted list of figures standing in the way imperial conquest, don’t be surprised if those same fighters return to their old head chopping ways when your backs are turned.
what a shame… syria doesn’t deserve to have this fate. what a shame for all those young men who died through the years fighting against israhell and in the end those monsters hts..what a shame…
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more bad reports from syria . the greater israel project rolls on .
this is like a campaign in total war computer game. where you have forces of chaos razing and annexing settlements. the israelis are like the skaven rat creatures in total war warhammer: in both appearance and behaviour.
what israel, it was finished by the assyrians, there’s no more israel, it’s over, there’s only real sons of wall street.
israel should incorporate all druze and kurds into israel like putin incorporated all russian-speaking ukrainians into russia.
hts would deserve for the idf to destroy everything hafez al assad built, so that hts would only have toyotas and the martian desert.
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oh no. hts would deserve the idf to take all of it.hts would deserve to have a city-state in idlib, and syria is the size of san marino (alone idlib).
1. it would be nice if erdogan and jolani had a syria the size of idlib. 2. erdogan and jolani would deserve nato to ignore the israeli bombing of turkey. 3. jolani would deserve that trump, in return for lifting sanctions, demands that jolani recognize damascus as part of israel.
israel would deserve to have the turkish army expel all druze and kurds to israel.
i think that at that time an army would be formed in israel, which would no longer be called the idf but the iddkf.
the israel defense forces should annex parts of syria inhabited by druze and kurds. maybe the idiots in other parts would finally realize then that jolani and erdogan are just not as smart as they think they are.
israel cannot hold gaza let along hold territory in places that hate their guts. the problem with jews is they are overrated in intelligence. you should adjust your expectations. israel is a fake country and judaism is the worst religion in the region. talmud is also rubbish
looks like the british the yanks the french, the germans, the number the nato, the g7 are having a free for all on attacking everybody and to be damned with any laws of sovereignty. remember the british and yanks are the ones who put the israeli terrorists in that region and granted then that state.
instead of they giving them a country in its real place (khazaria).
the kurds and druze should receive more idf aid and the idf should bomb turkey as well not just syria.
how has bombing worked out so far for israel? israel is still full of delusional, imbred and miserable jews
this is what happens when you are led by psychopaths like hts and, of course, erdogan’s nato army.
these miserable jews have just opened up a multi front forever war against everyone. do they think they can survive fighting forever? no society survives that sort of insanity