Dec 10 2024 5 mins 4
With the collapse of the Assad regime, the Separation of Forces Agreement from 1974 between Israel and Syria has also collapsed. Israel quickly moved military forces into the buffer zone in Syrian territory, including capturing the Syrian peak of the Hermon Mountain ridge. Israel says it’s temporary until a suitable arrangement is found. Retired Ambassador Alan Baker, a former legal adviser to the Israeli foreign ministry and today the head of the legal division of the Jerusalem Center for Foreign and Security Affairs, said the Syrian side was open to military or terrorist groups who want to take over. He told reporter Arieh O’Sullivan that the 50-year-old mandate of the UN observers in the buffer zone on the Golan Heights is up by the end of the year and the security council will have to decide whether to extend it. (photo: Michael Giladi/flash90)
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