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IOF establishing posts on top of Mount Hermon: Exclusive

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  • Source: Al Mayadeen
  • 23 Dec 2024 12:09
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The Israeli occupation has been conducting combing operations across Mount Hermon's peak, seeking to establish a position overlooking rural Damascus.

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  • An Israeli soldier stands on the top of a tank next to a Syrian tank inside the buffer zone, on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP)
    An Israeli soldier stands on the top of a tank next to a Syrian tank inside the buffer zone, on December 21, 2024. (AP)

The Israeli occupation forces are combing the entirety of Mount Hermon's peak, and are establishing a new post overlooking Damascus' southwestern countryside, local sources told Al Mayadeen on Monday. 

According to exclusive sources, the Israeli army seized military equipment in the area, as well as the wreckage of an Israeli helicopter downed during the 1973 war.

On Sunday, a local source told Al Mayadeen that Israeli tanks and armored patrols infiltrated the al-Hamidiyah axis in the countryside of Quneitra towards the provincial center in the town of al-Baath, southwest of Syria, coinciding with inspection campaigns carried out by Israeli forces, which targeted some homes and farms in the villages of the central countryside.

Israeli occupation forces also indiscriminately opened fire toward the al-Hamidiyah and al-Hurriya forests in the Quneitra countryside, local sources reported, amid movements the IOF suspected near the "disengagement line".

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This comes in light of the IOF having established seven permanent positions throughout the buffer zone along the line, which stretches across the rural areas of Damascus, Daraa, and Quneitra.

The positions are as follows: Hermon 1, Hermon 2, and the Beit Jinn Gap on the slopes of Mount Sheikh in the southwestern rural area of Damascus; Qurs al-Nafal Hill, west of Hader in northern Quneitra; Kassarat Jubat al-Khashab in northern Quneitra; the 74th barracks in southern Quneitra; and the al-Jazeera barracks at the Syrian-Jordanian border in the Yarmouk Basin in western Daraa.

Points 1 and 2 in Mount Hermon provide a strategic vantage point, overlooking the capital Damascus, and its entire western suburbs. 

To date, "Israel" has completely occupied nearly 500 square kilometers of southern Syria, demolishing all Syrian military sites on the slopes of Mount Hermon and the hills of Quneitra and Daraa.

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