Syrian rebels with links to Al-Qaeda and ISIS managed to rapidly topple – almost without any resistance – the decades-long Assad regime and entered the capital Damascus, and declared on state TV that Syria is now “free”.
That led neighbor Israel to immediately act in two different ways about it:
To begin with, Israel confirmed that it is carrying out air strikes on Syria to target suspected chemical weapons and missile sites.
Foreign minister Gideon Saarsaid the objective is to prevent these weapons systems from falling ‘into the hands of extremists’.
Dozens of Israeli air strikes took place in the past two days, including on a rocket development site in Damascus.
But that was not all – ground forces have also been deployed.
BBC reported:
“Also on Monday, the Israeli military released photos of its troops who crossed from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights into the demilitarized buffer zone in Syria where UN peacekeepers are based.
It comes a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the military had temporarily seized control of the so-called Area of Separation, saying the 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria had…
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