Unprecedented: Israel's Boldest Move in the Syria Conflict

As Syria rebuilds post-Assad, Israel launches more attacks, disrupting the national dialogue and asserting control over southern Syria as part of a regional escalation. The Israeli military says it launched strikes on weapons belonging to the Syrian government in southern Syria , hours after two projectiles were fired from Syria into the Israeli -occupied Golan. Israeli forces advanced several kilometres into southern Syria this week, where they destroyed homes and razed vast acres of land, as Israel's strikes with Iran entered its second week. The United Nations has sent reinforcements to Syria in the wake of an incursion by Israeli forces across a five-decade ceasefire line rocked by the sudden fall of the Syrian government to an. Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Herzi Halevi held an assessment on developments in Syria as jihadist rebels rapidly advanced through parts of the country, the. Israel’s narrative, cloaked as a defense strategy, targets military assets to thwart the rise of new Syrian governance, alleging ties to ‘terrorist groups’ post-Assad’s regime. However, their pervasive presence in the buffer zone signals a deeper agenda—retaining strategic dominance in the region. In the immediate aftermath of Assad’s fall, Israeli forces moved into a roughly 400-square-kilometer (155-square-mile) buffer zone inside Syria that was established after the 1973 Mideast war , a move it said was taken to prevent attacks on its citizens. As Israel’s focus has shifted to Lebanon in recent months, resulting in devastating blows to Hezbollah ’ s political and military infrastructure, its close ally, the Syrian regime, has remained conspicuously uninvolved, leaving some observers questioning the extent of Syrian support.