Israeli army carries out its latest ground incursion in southern Syria

Israel has repeatedly entered Syria since the autumn of al-Assad and has carried retired aerial raids crossed the country.

Israeli troops person carried retired a crushed cognition successful Syria’s southeastern Deraa province, Syria’s authorities quality bureau reported, the latest incursion successful the neighbouring state arsenic it besides continues aerial raids against Damascus successful assorted locations.

Soldiers besides carried retired searches successful the Saysoun and Jamlah towns connected Sunday, which are adjacent to the 1974 ceasefire enactment that was meant to abstracted Israeli and Syrian troops.

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On Saturday, Ahmed al-Sharaa, the country’s interim president, said talks with Israel person begun to re-establish a 1974 statement which was concluded aft the 1973 warfare betwixt the countries.

Israel and Syria person held nonstop talks successful caller months, and al-Sharaa has ruled retired normalisation. The talks are aimed astatine halting Israel’s assertive actions towards Syria and reaching immoderate benignant of security deal.

Israel has launched hundreds of strikes connected subject sites and assets crossed Syria since the autumn of erstwhile person Bashar al-Assad successful December. It has besides expanded its concern of the Syrian Golan Heights by seizing the demilitarised buffer zone, a determination that violated the 1974 disengagement statement with Syria.

On Tuesday, Syria “strongly condemned” Israeli attacks connected respective sites in and astir Homs metropolis successful the westbound of the state and astir the coastal metropolis of Latakia.

The Israeli aerial attacks correspond “a blatant usurpation of the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic”, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said successful a statement.

While Israel had for years waged a secretive run of aerial bombardment against Syria’s subject infrastructure, its attacks connected its neighbour person ramped up since the warfare connected Gaza and the autumn of al-Assad.

In precocious August, six Syrian soldiers were killed successful an Israeli drone onslaught connected Damascus, which came a time aft a crushed incursion into Syrian territory by Israeli troops.

The attacks connected Syria travel amid Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promotion of a imaginativeness for a “Greater Israel“, a conception supported by ultranationalist Israelis that lays assertion to the occupied West Bank and Gaza, arsenic good arsenic parts of Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Jordan.

After unit successful confederate Syria’s Suwayda connected July 13 betwixt Bedouin tribal fighters and Druze factions, authorities forces were sent successful to quell the fighting. But the bloodshed worsened, and Israel carried retired strikes connected Syrian troops and bombed the bosom of the capital, Damascus, nether the pretext of protecting the Druze.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies