The Israeli army “will remain at the summit of the Hermon (Jabal al-Sheikh) and the security zone indefinitely to ensure the security of the communities of the Golan Heights and the north, and all the residents of Israel,” he said during a visit to Israeli forces in the area.

After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the demilitarized buffer zone created in Syria after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

Israel seized demilitarized zone in occupied Syrian Golan Heights in December in violation of 1974 Disengagement Agreement - Anadolu Ajansı

As Damascus celebrated the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syrians living in the Quneitra governorate in the Golan Heights looked on as Israeli troops suddenly drove into their villages. The near-daily Israeli raids are scaring the population, who say they now ...

Katz said Israel would not allow what he described as hostile forces to establish themselves in southern Syria. Mount Hermon, a huge cluster of snowcapped mountain peaks towering above the Syria-Lebanon border,

Israeli forces will indefinitely maintain their strategic position on Mount Hermon in southern Syria, as declared by Defence Minister Israel Katz. This move, following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's reign,

QUNEITRA PROVINCE, GOLAN HEIGHTS, Syria — The Golan Heights ... swept into the Syrian capital Damascus in early December, toppling Bashar al-Assad's regime, Ramadan was uprooted and displaced.