Syrian Army Declares Full Alert After Israeli Tanks Cross Alpha Line in Occupied Golan Heights

The Damascus Army sent military equipment to Golan Region and declared the state of full alert after Israeli tanks were dispatched to the buffer zone in Golan.

News ID: 445211

Date: 01 June 2019 - 22:18

RNA - "The Israeli Army violated the disengagement agreement signed and designated by the UN in 1974," the Arabic-language website of Russian Sputnik news agency reported.

Meantime, the Syrian army continued its military advances in other parts of Syria over past 24 hours.

Tens of terrorists were killed and dozens more were injured during the Syrian army's operations in provinces across Syria.

Golan

The Syrian Army dispatched military equipment to Golan Region and declared the state of full alert after Israeli tanks were dispatched to the buffer zone in Golan.

The Arabic-language website of Russian Sputnik news agency reported that the Israeli Army violated the disengagement agreement signed and designated by the UN in 1974.

The buffer zone is an area where the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) is stationed between two Golans to the West of the village of Jbata al-Khashb in Northern Quneitra.

Sputnik pointed to the UNDOF's movements from Quneitra and Golan towards the buffer zone concurrent with Israeli tanks' movements to prevent any clashes between the Syrian Army and the Israeli forces, and said that the Syrian Army has sent new military convoys to Golan and placed its troops on full alert.

Golan region was under the occupation of Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) for several years.

On Tuesday, the Israeli fighter jets attacked a military position of the Syrian Army with missiles in Quneitra Province as government forces continued the operation to clean up Northwestern Syria from terrorists.

A military position of the Syrian Army came under Israel's missile attack in Tal al-Sha'ar region East of Khan Arnabeh in Quneitra Province, SANA news agency quoted a military source as saying on Friday night.

A military vehicle of the Syrian Army was damaged in the Israeli attack and a Syrian soldier was killed and another one was wounded in Israel's attack.

The Arabic-language website of the Russian Sputnik News Agency also quoted a battlefield source as saying three Israeli missiles also hit al-Kasveh region near Damascus.

Meantime, the Israeli Army claimed that its fighter jets had targeted Syrian Army's air defense system in Quneitra in response to firing rockets at Israeli warplanes.

The Israeli Army's new aggression against Syrian Army's military positions in Quneitra province came as the US and Turkish sides are trying to bring to a halt the Syrian Army battle against Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at in Idlib province.

Homs

The US is supporting the terrorist groups' on the Syrian Army positions in Homs as the Syrian Army is conducting military operations to cleanse the ISIL's remnants from the Eastern Badiyeh (desert) in the province, the Arabic-language media outlets said.

The Syrian Army backed by Russian air force has reinforced its military points on the hills overlooking al-Aqirbat and al-Balas regions as well as their surrounding areas in Eastern Homs, the Arabic-language website of the Russian Sputnik News Agency quoted a Syrian Army battlefield commander in Eastern Homs as saying.

The source pointed to the Syrian Army's military operations to clean up the remaining ISIL terrorists in the Northeastern part of al-Aqirbat in Eastern Homs, and said the Syrian Army troops are preparing for new battle against the ISIL on the road leading to Deir Ezzur.

Meantime, another military source pointed to the ISIL's continued attacks on army positions in Eastern al-Sukhna, and said that the US is supporting the ISIL terrorists with logistical aid and attacks on Army positions in T3 Station and roads along which army units move.

The source went on to say that the US is trying to help the ISIL block roads leading to Badiyeh due to Badiyeh's strategically important oil and gas reserves.

Aleppo

The Turkey-backed militants opened fire at civilians to expel them from Afrin region in Aleppo province as Ankara continues efforts to annex more regions to its occupied territories, Kurdish-language media outlets said.

The terrorist groups supported by Ankara have forced the residents of the towns of Lower Kukan and Upper Kukan in Moubata region of Afrin to leave their houses, the Kurdish-language Hawar News website quoted local sources in Afrin as saying.

According to Fars News Agancy, the sources pointed to residents' opposition and protests at militants, and said the terrorists have opened fire at protesting civilians and severely injured 10 of them.

They also said that the terrorists have not allowed the injured people to be transferred to hospitals and have told them to leave the towns in Afrin region or wait for execution.

The Arabic-language al-Watan newspaper, meantime, pointed to Ankara's efforts to annex the Northern parts of Syria to Turkey, and said that the Turkish occupiers plan to build infrastructure in the occupied regions of Northern Aleppo.

Meantime, the residents of the town of Jandaris in Afrin region also staged public strike after a civilian was killed during infighting among terrorists.

Hama-Idlib

Rifts and disputes have heightened among terrorist groups in Northern Hama and Southern Idlib despite Turkey's increased logistical aids to Ankara-backed militants.

Battlefield sources in Northern Syria reported that the Syrian Army's artillery units hit hard the military positions of Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at in the surroundings of al-Hobait, Karsa'eh, Tarmala and Sarjeh in Southern Idlib, destroying several of their hideouts and killing several of them.

They noted that a new wave of internal differences can be seen among terrorists in Northern Hama and Southern Idlib as well as defection of militants from the ranks of their terrorist groups.

They pointed to the terrorists' growing concerns after the Syrian Army advances in Northern Syria, and said that a number of militants have asked for government pardoning.

Meantime, media sources affiliated to terrorist groups reported that the Turkish Army has recently supplied the Idlib-based terrorist groups with a large amount of shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft rocket-launchers.

Meantime, the Kurdish-language Hawar News Website said that the Turkish Army has dispatched a fresh military convoy comprising 30 military vehicles, tanks and armored military vehicles to areas under their control in the town of Mourek in Northern Hama from Northern Idlib via the Kafar Lousin crossing.

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