Israel Boosts Military Positions in Golan Heights

  • 7/1/2018
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The Israeli army bolstered on Sunday its positions in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights in response to intensified fighting across the border. The military said that it deployed the additional tank and artillery forces on the Syrian front as a precaution. "The forces deployed this morning as part of preparations and readiness in light of developments on the Syrian Golan Heights," the military said on Twitter, adding that Israel was holding to a policy of non-intervention in Syrias civil war. On Saturday, the Syrian regime pressed its offensive in the countrys south under the cover of airstrikes as opposition factions said Russia has put forward conditions to end the violence that are hard to accept. Syrian regime media said more areas in Daraa province were captured and in others opposition groups agreed to hand over their weapons and reconcile with Damascus. The regime offensive that began June 19 has killed scores of people, wounded hundreds of others and forced more than 50,000 to flee to areas close to the Jordanian border and the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Ibrahim Jabawi, spokesman for the opposition factions’ joint operations room, revealed that the Russian conditions are that factions hand over everything and in return all areas will come under Bashar Assads control. "All people who carried arms will be put on trial." Jabawi said the Russian conditions "cannot be accepted" adding that to pressure the opposition, intense airstrikes have been targeting southern villages and towns that have escaped much of Syrias seven-year conflict. Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the negotiations between opposition and the Russians aim to find "a full solution" for the future of Daraa. It said negotiations aim to reach a ceasefire as well as opposition factions handing over their heavy weapons then later their light weapons. It added that in return for Russian guarantees, the rebels would hand over the Nassib border crossing with Jordan and return state institutions to opposition-held areas in the south.

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