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Israel–Syria relations refer to the bilateral ties between the State of Israel and the Syrian Arab Republic.The two countries have been locked in a perpetual war since the establishment of Israel in 1948, with their most significant and direct armed engagements being in the First Arab–Israeli War in 1948–1949, the Third Arab–Israeli War in 1967, and the Fourth Arab–Israeli War in 1973.
The roughly 155-square-mile buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights was created after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the most recent of three wars fought between the two ...
In 2004 and 2005 Israel and Syria engaged in private talks discussing an outline peace accord. These were successful at a technical level, but failed to gain adequate political support. [297] Hostility between Syria and Israel further increased following Israel's execution of Operation Orchard on 6 September 2007.
Map of the UNDOF Zone (in purple) Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel has occupied most of the Golan Heights region of Syria. After the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israel and Syria agreed to a ceasefire which created the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which maintains a small buffer zone between the two countries.
Israel ordered troops to prepare to spend winter on Mount Hermon in the Syria buffer zone after the Assad regime's collapse. And a post office in Nuseirat refugee camp was hit by the IDF, killing ...
Under Assad, Syria was part of Iran’s "axis of resistance," a network of regional governments and paramilitary factions Tehran wielded against the U.S. and Israel. Syria's territory was used as ...
Israel's official position in the Syrian Civil War has been strict neutrality, [13] as per various Israeli Defense Ministers. [14] [15]In July 2017, Israel's Defence Minister, Avigdor Liberman, said that while "the rebels are not our friends, they are all versions of al-Qaeda", Israel could not allow a man like Bashar al-Assad to remain in power: "Keeping Assad in power is not in our security ...
Israel plans to double the numbers of settlers in the occupied Golan Heights in Syria despite repeated calls to withdraw its troops from the land it seized after president Bashar al-Assad's ouster