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Ore 16 – Israel opened fire during a protest organized by Syrian inhabitants of a village in the occupied areas, wounding a demonstrator. The episode occurred in Maariyah, where Tel Aviv occupied a military post used by the Syrian army before the fall of Assad. Syrian residents reported on Thursday 19 December that the military is preventing farmers from going to their fields. Associated Press journalists saw one of the residents waving a white flag as he approached the occupied area. The village is located in the southern Syrian province of Daraa, outside the buffer zone in the Golan Heights.
During the protest on Friday 20 December, according to Israeli Channel 14, the demonstrators chanted slogan to ask for the withdrawal of the military. The army first used a drone to remove the inhabitants and then fired on one of them, hitting him in the leg.
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Foreign Pages, 20 December 2024. The Golan has become the set favorite photograph of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who now divides his public presence between the courtrooms (in which he is present as an accused for corruption crimes) and Mt Jamal al-Sheikh (Mount Hermon). The images from the occupied Golan Heights bounce on everyone media. “His obsession with controlling the mirror through which he is perceived,” writes the Israeli newspaper Haaretz“brought him into the dock in court and is at the center of his testimony as an indicted in three corruption cases.” I am images of victorywith the Israeli flag always flying brightly behind the premier smiling, they try to overwrite the memory of the failure of October 7, 2023the defeat of the secret services and the government's inability to prevent the attack Hamas.
And the strategy seems to be working. The image of a winning Israel, led by a leader unscrupulous who leads his soldiers across borders, bombs and occupies states and territories (Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria), completely immune at the law international and at ethical consequences of their actions, strengthens internal trust and rallies the people around the prime minister. Because it's not about the only one anymore desire for revengealready satisfied with the killing of leader of the movement of Hamas and those of Hezbollah. It's now about taking the opportunity to achieve more. More in the way of safetyOf checkOf territoryOf political and economic agreements. It's about getting the alienation of all one's enemiesdirect and indirect, isolate and weaken them for decades, from the Palestinians to the Lebanese, up to Iran.
Tel Aviv could never have lost the Syrian opportunityinserting itself with speed and cunning into the void left by the government forces of Assad and not yet filled by new leaders, very timid in relations with the Jewish state. He couldn't have lost her for various reasons. For the security of the areas to the north of Israel, for the return of the citizens who were evacuated since the beginning of the clashes with the Lebanese Shiite movement, to obtain what all leader of the past have tried to obtain, to negotiate from a point of strength with the new Syrian government, to restart and expand the tourism economy towards the ski facilities (now closed) in the occupied Golan and for strengthen the image of his victory.
From the fall of Bashar al Assad to today, in just over ten days, the Israeli military has taken control of approximately 440 square kilometers of Syrian territory. They well passed the armistice lines and arrived at 20 kilometers from the countryside south of Damascus and then arrived just 12 kilometers from the international road that connects the Syrian capital in Beirut. But not only that, they went to several villages, up to the area of Quneitra. Various testimonies say that on several occasions the Syrian inhabitants were there forced by the Tel Aviv military to hand over weapons and documents and to respect a curfew. There are reports of interrogations and the presence, together with the soldiers, of archaeologists specialists who are mapping the territory. Late this morning, Syrian sources announced that around thirty Israeli soldiers, with armored vehicles and bulldozersthey entered a military area west of Al-Rafid, in the countryside south of Quneitra, cutting down trees and fences.
At the beginning of the advance, probably to reassure the partner international, the premier Netanyahu spoke of a “temporary operation” that would end with a new agreement to be signed with the groups that control Damascus. The need for a “new” pact has been justified declaring the 1974 disengagement agreement null and void because the Syrian signatory was no longer available and his soldiers had abandoned the border posts. The register soon changed, with the approval of a plan worth approximately 11 million dollars for the demographic development of the Golan. “We will remain on the Golan until the end of 2025,” he told his troops, who, while preparing fortress shelters, insinuated themselves deeper and deeper into Syrian territory. The narrative of the Jewish state, presented on the most important ones media interior, is the one already used in the past a Druze population who wants to leave Syria to obtain Israeli citizenship. A desire which, according to Tel Aviv, is expressed not only by the Druze on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights but also by those on the Syrian side, well beyond buffer zone demilitarized that separates the two borders. The televisions circulated video that some people from Syrian villages would show voluntarily hand over old weapons of Assad's military to the Israeli army and some Druze, defined by the media as “leader of the villages”, declare that they feel more Israeli than Syrian. The Arabic narrative is predictably different. Citizens of the countries on the Syrian side of Mount Jamal al-Sheikh, who they define the Tel Aviv occupation as an occupationdeclared through their village leaders that they were forced by the military to hand over their weapons and that they would never accept Israeli citizenship because they feel and are Syrian. At the bottom, lhe Druze population of Israel it was the one that paid the most, in terms of victims, for the clash between Tel Aviv and Hezbollah. The number of Israeli citizens belonging to minorities killed by missiles in 14 months of war, disproportionate to the number of Israeli Jewish victims, shows the government's inability or unwillingness to provide adequate protection to its Druze, Arab and Bedouin citizens.
The Israeli advance in Syria, accompanied by hundreds of bombings which have destroyed research centers, weapons depots, state structures and more, does not, however, simply pursue the position of the villages at the foot of the mountain. The water follows. At least three water sources among the most important in the region they would have been joined by the military: Sheikh Hussein, Sahm Al Golan, Al Bakar Al Gharbi. It is often about basins or waterways that guarantee supply in areas suffering from drought not only in Syria but also in border countries, such as Jordan.
Even in Lebanondespite the ceasefire, Tel Aviv continues its advance. Since November 27, the day of the truce with Hezbollah, the soldiers entered several villageswidening and making its occupation line more stable along the entire Lebanese border. According to sources close to the Shiite group, in less than a month the army would have increased the occupied area by at least a thirdthrough bombings, the demolition of buildings and the flattening of rubble.
Israeli settlers try to build a settlement in southern Lebanon (Photo: X)
After an initial denial, the Israeli army had to admit that dozens of settlers crossed the border into Lebanese territory from the south to claim it as their own, setting up tents and structures. These would mainly be extremists of the Ori HaTzafon Movement (Northern skins). The photos depict settlers performing banners showing the cedar tree, symbol of Lebanon, inscribed in the Star of David. In September the same group put it up for sale through its website webproperty in southern Lebanon at a starting cost of $80,000. Foreign Pages
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