The Syrian army announced on Tuesday that it had received the new year by regaining control of the strategic area in the Quneitra countryside to end Israel’s dream of a buffer zone at its borders.
According to the agency SANA the government army raised this morning, the flag of the Syrian Arab Republic and established points throughout the strategic area located east of the town of Hadar, which has been subjected over the past years to dozens of attacks and attacks from this solution, pointing out that the “terrorist organizations” bet on these lands “to impose its firepower” there.
SANA explained that the achievement of this important field progress was the result of a military operation carried out by the army over a period of three months forced “armed terrorist groups to surrender and to comply with the terms of the delivery of heavy weapons and leave large areas to announce the declaration of safe areas,” adding that this step was taken after combing these The land by government forces and “dismantle what the terrorists planted bombs and mines.”
The Syrian army paved the way for “the return of the displaced families to their homes and normal work after years of displacement” in this area.
The area is connected to the villages of Jabal al-Sheikh, Jibata and Mashati, which are located in the Quneitra countryside. It is located on the Imdad road and the movement of armed groups. The Syrian government says it is linked to the “Israeli occupation entity” towards Khan al-Shih and its farms in south-western Damascus.
The Syrian army has succeeded in “putting an end to the dreams of the Israeli enemy in establishing what it called a buffer zone under the control of its terrorist organizations and carrying out its anti-Syrian agendas,” SANA said.
Earlier in the day, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot warned of “grave danger” to the field successes of Syrian forces and their allies from Iran and Hezbollah in the south of the country.
“They want to return to the Golan Heights to expand Iranian success, create a land and sea presence for Iran in Syria and build intelligence networks, and the degree of risk from these developments is significant,” Eisenkot said.
Eisenkot stressed that Israel is making military and political efforts to prevent the imposition of “Shiite hegemony” in Syria, declaring that the Israeli army may soon participate in a broad international coalition to prevent it.
This development comes at a time when the Israeli media are starting to sound alarm against the backdrop of what it described as the intensification of the Syrian army forces and its subsidiary units of Hezbollah and other pro-Iranian attacks on armed opposition factions in the area of the slopes of Mount Hermon on the northern border of the Golan Heights.
“They gave us 72 hours to surrender and to leave the fighters to Idlib and those who choose to stay will have to reach a settlement,” Ibrahim al-Jabbawi, a senior official of the Syrian Free Army, was quoted by Israel’s Channel Two last week as saying.
The channel pointed out in its report that “the Israeli security services had long warned of the concentration of Iranian forces in Syria and Lebanon, and at the beginning of this month, revealed that there is cause for concern.”
