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New head of Israeli military visits troops in Syria
Eyal Zamir, who was appointed the military’s chief of staff last week, visited Israeli troops in southern Syria, the Israeli military says.
Israel took the opportunity presented by the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in December to illegally occupy more Syrian territory along the buffer zone between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the remainder of Syria.
It has also repeatedly bombed military sites throughout Syria.
Israel says it will issue permits for Syrian Druze workers in occupied Golan Heights
Israel’s Ministry of Defence says it will allow Syrian Druze workers to enter the occupied Golan Heights, but didn’t give a timeline for when permits would be issued.
The Druze are an ethnoreligious minority that largely identifies as Arab and is Arabic-speaking. The community is found in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and the Golan Heights – Syrian territory occupied by Israel.
Israel took the majority of the Golan Heights in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and then annexed the area in 1981 despite condemnation by the United Nations and the international community.
Only the United States recognises Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan, which is strategically important because it overlooks the plains of northern Israel and southwestern Syria.
An Israeli soldier walks by the ceasefire line with Syria and the occupied Golan Heights
