This Sunday, Israel welcomed the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, with Benjamin Netanyahu calling on the Israeli army to “take control” of the Golan buffer zone, in south-west Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Israeli strikes have been carried out against arms depots in eastern Syria.
We take stock of recent developments in the situation in the Middle East.
Gaza denounces Israeli strikes against hospital in Beit Lahiya
Several people were injured and medical equipment damaged after Israeli strikes on a hospital in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, Palestinian health authorities said on Sunday, which the Israeli army denied.
Houssam Abou Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital, one of three still operational on the northern edge of the enclave, said the establishment had been hit by around a hundred tank shells and bombs. late Saturday.
The situation is extremely dangerous. We have patients in the intensive care unit and others waiting for surgery. Access to operating rooms will only be possible after electricity and oxygen supply are restored
he said in a press release.
The hospital is treating 112 injured people, including six in the intensive care unit.
The Israeli military said it conducted an investigation and found that its forces did not launch a strike near the hospital or damage any of its critical equipment.
Hamas Health Ministry announces new death toll of 44,708
The Hamas government's health ministry for Gaza announced on Sunday a new death toll of 44,708 in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel.
At least 44 people have been killed in the past 24 hours, he said in a statement, adding that 106,050 people had been injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, sparked by an unprecedented Hamas attack. in Israel on October 7, 2023.
Israel welcomes fall of Assad regime
Israel welcomed Sunday, with the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the fall of a central link
of the axis of evil
led by Iran, its sworn enemy.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw this a direct consequence
blows delivered by his country to Tehran and to Lebanese Hezbollah.
This is a historic day in the history of the Middle East
he declared from the Syrian Golan occupied and annexed by Israel.
Netanyahu urges army to take control of Golan buffer zone
The Israeli Prime Minister also announced on Sunday that he had ordered the army to take control
of the Golan buffer zone, in southwest Syria, on the edge of the part of this plateau occupied and annexed by Israel.
Order was also given to take control of adjacent strategic positions
Netanyahu said from the northeast of the occupied Golan and an observation point overlooking the area.
Israel conquered part of the Golan from Syria during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 before annexing this territory in 1981. This annexation is not recognized by the UN. In 1974, a UN force was sent to a buffer zone to monitor a ceasefire.
This agreement with Syria collapsed
after the lightning rebel offensive that ended half a century of rule by the Assad clan in Syria, Netanyahu said, adding that Israel will not allow any hostile force to establish itself on our border
.
NGO reports Israeli strikes on arms depots in eastern Syria
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) reported a series of Israeli airstrikes in the east of the country on Sunday, specifying that the pace of strikes had accelerated after the fall of President Bashar al- Assad.
Israel carried out airstrikes against arms depots and positions belonging to the toppled regime and Iranian-backed groups in Deir Ezzor province
Rami Abdel Rahmane, director of the OSDH, told Agence France Presse. He said strikes targeting these targets had increased since Assad fled the country after rebels captured the capital Damascus in a lightning offensive.
Israeli army says it carried out strike against Hezbollah in Lebanon
The Israeli army announced on Sunday that it had carried out an airstrike against Hezbollah fighters operating in a weapons storage center
in southern Lebanon, despite a truce in force since November 27.
The army has also struck
in the day of numerous Hezbollah terrorists who posed a threat
she said in a statement without giving details on the location of these strikes.
The fall of Assad, “end of game” for Hezbollah in Lebanon according to the main Christian party
The leader of the Lebanese Forces (FL), the main Christian party in the country, estimated on Sunday December 8 that the fall of Bashar al-Assad in neighboring Syria sounded the end of game
for Hezbollah, which he called to lay down their arms.
The Lebanese Islamist movement, ally of Assad, but decapitated and weakened after more than a year of hostilities with Israel, had to withdraw its troops from Syria after the flash rebel offensive, which on Sunday wrested the capital Damascus from Syrian power , ending an unchallenged reign since 2000.
The game is over […] every day that passes is a day lost for you and for the Lebanese
declared Samir Geagea to Hezbollah during a press conference, welcoming the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
Samir Geagea, a fierce opponent of Syrian hegemony, is the only militia leader from the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) to have served an 11-year prison sentence during Syrian rule over the country, which lasted 29 years.
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