Israel’s defence minister said the country wanted to create a “sterile defensive area” inside Syria after seizing territory and pounding military targets in the country following the collapse of president Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
In recent days, Israeli ground forces have crossed the border from the occupied Golan Heights into a previously demilitarised buffer zone inside Syria, seizing abandoned Syrian army positions.
Israel Katz on Tuesday said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered the military “to establish a sterile defensive area free of weapons and terror threats in southern Syria” without a permanent Israeli presence.
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