The Israeli army destroyed 3 Syrian tanks in the town of Saasaa and continues infiltrating in various areas in Syria
The Israeli Air Force bombed, on Tuesday evening, 3 tanks in the town of Saasaa in southern Syria, claiming that they were belonging to the former Syrian regime.
The Israeli army said in a statement, “A short time ago, air force drones attacked combat equipment belonging to the former Syrian regime in the Sa’sa area in southern Syria”.
The statement added, “The Israeli army will continue to work to eliminate any threat to the State of Israel”.
While the statement didn’t specify the targets that the drones bombed in southern Syria, the Israeli Army Radio said that the bombing targeted 3 tanks that were about 20 kilometers from the border with Israel.
The Israeli Army radio quoted unnamed Israeli security sources as saying that the tanks that were attacked contained weapons, and weren’t in military use by the new Syrian regime.
On February 8, the Israeli army said that its warplanes bombed a weapons depot in the Deir Ali area in southern Syria, claiming that these weapons stored inside the warehouse are intended for carrying out “terrorist attacks against Israeli army forces”.
On same context, the Israeli army also launched artillery shelling on residential areas in Dara’a Governorate, southern Syria.
On Tuesday, the Israeli army conducted 9 artillery attacks southwest of Dara’a, targeting civilian residential areas, according to local sources.
Taking advantage of the overthrow of Assad’s regime on December 8, 2024, Israel expanded its occupation of the Golan Heights by occupying the Syrian buffer zone and Mount Hermon, and expanded its attacks on infrastructure and military sites in Syria.
The Israeli army began destroying the military infrastructure and remaining capabilities of the ousted regime’s army, and expanded its occupation within the buffer zone surrounding the Golan Heights, which is part of Syrian territory, until it reached a distance of 25 kilometers from the capital, Damascus.
Israel also announced the collapse of the 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria, and the deployment of its army in the demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights, most of whose area it has occupied since 1967, in a move condemned by the United Nations and Arab countries.
Israel has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, and after the Yom Kippur war 1973, in 1974, a separation of forces agreement was signed between Israel and Syria, which defined the borders of the buffer zone and the demilitarized zone.
