(Dan Tri) - Sources from British and Israeli media said that Israeli soldiers appear to have entered Syrian territory and are still a few dozen kilometers from the capital Damascus.
Israeli troops in the Golan Heights on the Syrian border (Photo: Reuters).
Reuters quoted two regional security sources and a Syrian security source on December 10 as saying that Israeli military forces were believed to have entered Syrian territory and were 25km southwest of the capital Damascus.
According to a Syrian security source, the Israeli army appears to have reached Qatana, 10km east of Syrian territory in the demilitarized zone separating the Golan Heights.
It is not yet clear what Tel Aviv's intentions are. The Israeli military declined to comment on the report.
On the morning of October 12, Arab media reported that Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) tanks were spotted about 20km from Damascus. According to Reuters , several Syrian military ships appeared to have been sunk by the Israeli air force.
As opposition forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) announced their capture of the capital Damascus and the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad's government, Israel, Türkiye and the United States launched military operations, attacking targets across Syria.
Israel also confirmed that it had deployed forces into the buffer zone outside the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and into former Syrian military positions on Mount Hermon as a "temporary measure". Hermon lies on the border between Syria, Lebanon and the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War, before formally annexing in 1981.
Israel has said it will continue to carry out airstrikes on Syrian regime sites believed to be linked to missile and chemical weapons. The strikes were reported on the evening of December 9 at an air defense facility near the port of Latakia.
The Israeli military said it carried out air strikes on positions inside Syria it said were used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons, a rare instance in which Israel has admitted carrying out attacks inside its neighbor.
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