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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

IDF building along UN-patrolled demilitarized zone in Syria, satellite images show

2024-11-12

[IsraelTimes] Photos show trenches and fortifications being built along Syrian side of Golan Heights border; UN confirms Israeli encroachment ‘into the area of separation’

Israel has begun a construction project along the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Golan Heights from Syria, apparently laying asphalt for a road right along the frontier, satellite photos analyzed by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named show.

Israeli troops have entered the demilitarized zone during the work, the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
confirmed to the AP.

Earlier satellite photos show the work began in earnest in late September.

Photos at the link.

So far, there has been no major violence along the Alpha Line, which delineates the demilitarized zone between Syria and the Golan Heights that UN peacekeepers have patrolled since 1974.

Syria, which has officially been at war with Israel since its founding in 1948 and relies on Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
for support, has remained silent regarding the construction.

”Please don’t bomb us more!”

The Israeli military did not respond to requests for comment and Syrian officials in Damascus declined to comment.

High-resolution images taken on November 5 by Planet Labs PBC for the AP show over 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometers) of construction along the Alpha Line, starting some two miles (3.2 kilometers) southeast of the Druze town of Majdal Shams, where a Hezbollah rocket strike in July killed 12 children playing soccer.

The images appear to show a trench between two embankments, parts of which seems to have been laid with fresh asphalt. There also appears to be fencing running along it, as well toward the Syrian side.

The construction follows a southeast route before heading due south along the Alpha Line, and then again cutting southeast. The images show excavators and other earth-moving equipment actively digging along the route, with more asphalt piled there. The area is also believed to be littered with unwent kaboom! ordnance and mines from decades of conflict.

The United Nations maintains a peacekeeping force in the demilitarized zone called the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, or UNDOF.

"In recent months, UNDOF has observed construction activity being carried out by the IDF along the ceasefire line," UN peacekeeping spokesperson Nick Birnback told the AP.

"In this regard, UNDOF has observed in some instances, IDF personnel, Israeli excavators, other construction equipment, and the construction itself encroach into the area of separation."

Birnback added that "no military forces, equipment, or activity by either Israel or Syria are permitted in the area of separation."
"Permitted". What you gonna do about it, asshat?
While Israel has not acknowledged the construction, it sent a 71-page letter in June to the UN outlining what it described as "Syrian violations of the Alpha Line and armed presence in the area of separation (that) occur daily." The letter cited numerous Israeli-alleged violations by Syrian civilians crossing the line.

"Syrian violations of that agreement only heighten tensions in our already volatile region," the letter added.

”Since you haven't done your job, we’re going to do it for you. The option is that we treat Syria like we’re treating Lebanon — your choice. Do let us know what you decide.”

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