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muriel_volestrangler

(105,291 posts)
5. Well, no.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 06:30 PM
9 hrs ago

The parts of the BBC article that don't come from SANA or the Syrian government are:

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said troops went into the village, on the edge of the occupied Golan Heights, to detain militants who it said "advanced terror attacks against Israeli civilians".

Six Israeli soldiers were injured in the clashes, three seriously, it said.

The IDF said it targeted the Jamaa Islamiya militant group in Friday's operation. It said that when the raid began, "several armed terrorists opened fire" on its soldiers, who fired back.
...
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group, said a building collapsed during the operation.

The IDF later said "all of the suspects were apprehended, and a number of terrorists were eliminated".
...
Israel regularly carries out incursions into Syrian villages, saying it acts to prevent the presence of armed groups.

Since the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad nearly a year ago, Israel has moved its forces across a buffer zone on the Golan Heights into southern Syria, where a number of anti-Israel groups and cells operate.

Israel says it will not allow the Syrian army, which it considers a threat, to deploy there.

The buffer zone - a demilitarised stretch of land - had been a no-go area designed to keep the peace after a ceasefire ended the 1973 war between Israel and Syria. The UN has said the IDF's deployment there was a "violation" of the agreement which it said both sides should uphold.

The US has for months been mediating talks between Israel and Syria for a security agreement in the area between the two sides, but without success.

So, from the Haaretz article, we see that the purpose of the IDF invading Syria was to arrest " two wanted individuals, who are also brothers, affiliated with the Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya group". We don't hear anything about a "terrorist attack".

The Times of Israel says the pair were " planning attacks on Israel", and "had previously launched rockets at Israel". But I can't find a report of this previous rocket attack which the IDF says was "against Israeli civilians". It does not seem to have been serious enough to report in English-language media.

According to Wikipedia, Israel claims that, since the fall of Assad, 3 non-combatant Israelis have been injured from attack from Syria, 9 soldiers, and 1 soldier killed. Meanwhile, the IDF has killed about 40 civilian Syrians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_invasion_of_Syria_%282024%E2%80%93present%29

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