The Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday his country’s armed
forces “operate in Syria from time to time to prevent Syria from
becoming a front against us” during a conference in the Israeli
city of Acre.
“We're
operating against another terror front that Iran is trying to build
in the Golan, and in order to thwart the transfer of particularly
deadly weapons from Syria to Lebanon. We will continue doing this,”
the prime minister said.
His comments
are the first time the Israeli government has admitted to operating
in Syria despite several reports of Israeli airstrikes and limited
ground operations in Syria since the start of the conflict nearly
five years ago. Israel maintains its occupation of the Syrian Golan
Heights since the 1967 Six-Day War. Israel also began drilling for
oil in the Golan Heights in February of this year.
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