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Israel Intervened in Syria by Declaring Buffer Zone in Syria Golan Heights
[al-Alam] Monitors from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the village of Khadr was now surrounded by terrorists, who had taken a hilltop immediately to the north.Druze leaders in Israel and the Golan Heights warned that they might storm the frontier to save their relatives, fearing a sectarian massacre. Netanyahu said he had given "instructions to do what is necessary" to help Syria's Druze. Israel also warned Syrian "terrorist" groups operating in southern Syria not to attack and to stay away from Khadr. Local media reports said the Israelis was considering establishing a buffer zone on the Syrian side of the border for refugees - a move that would be an unprecedented step given decades in which the frontier has been a "frozen zone". The crisis over the Druze intensified on Tuesday night, as fighting between Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... - al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate - Syrian rebels and the Syrian army intensified in southern Syria. Jabhat al-Nusra have insisted they are not intent on killing Druze, a sect that hardline "jihadists"(terrorists) consider to be heretical or apostate from true Islam. They even killed 20 Druze in a village in northern Syria in a dispute over property. On Tuesday, the Israeli Forces temporarily declared an area in the northern Golan Heights a closed military zone. The move was done "in order to prevent gatherings near the border, which would interfere with IDF---Israeli forces--- activities, and was not related to the fighting in Syria", an IDF front man said in a statement to The Telegraph. Posted by: Fred 2015-06-19 |
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