UN raps Israel for expanding its occupation of Syria’s Golan Heights
The United Nations has criticized the Israeli regime for expanding its occupation of Syria’s Golan Heights.
Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the world body’s Secretary General Antonio Guterres, made the remarks on Monday, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the regime’s troops to move into a buffer zone on the edge of the 1967-occupied Syrian territory.
The Israeli official issued the order after alleging that a 1974 disengagement agreement that had set up the area to separate the Israeli-occupied part of the territory from Syrian land, had collapsed.
He, meanwhile, claimed that the Israeli forces "will continue to operate [there] as long as necessary in order to preserve the buffer zone and defend” the regime.
Pointing to the Israeli expansionism, Dujarric said the troops "have entered the area of separation and have been moving within that area where they remain in at least three locations throughout the area of separation."
This is while, "there should be no military forces or activities in the area of separation. And Israel and Syria must continue to uphold the terms of that 1974 agreement, and preserve stability in the Golan," he added.
The comments came a day after foreign-backed militants stormed the Syrian capital Damascus after scoring major gains in the Arab country’s north around two weeks following their staging a resurgence there.
Amid the militants’ attempts to stage a comeback in the country, reports would point to their receiving strong support on the part of the Israeli regime, Turkey, and some Western states, which have been acting as the main backers of anti-Damascus outfits since the outbreak of foreign-backed militancy in Syria in 2011.
The Israeli military also began stepping up its attacks on the Syrian territory in the run-up to the militant takeover, and continues to escalate the aggression.
Ever since the takeover that ousted the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the military has carried out around 400 airstrikes against Syrian military targets.
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