France, on Wednesday, called on Israel to withdraw from Syria’s Golan Heights, according to an official statement from the Foreign Ministry, Anadolu Agency reports.
The French Foreign Ministry recalled that as indicated by the United Nations, any military deployments in the separation zone between Syria and Israel is a violation of the 1974 Agreement on Disengagement, which must be respected by its signatories, Israel and Syria.
France calls on Israel to withdraw from the zone and respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria, the statement also read.
The Ministry reiterated Paris’ full support to the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in Golan.
Israel has expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights this week by seizing a UN-supervised demilitarized buffer zone, hours after the ousting of Bashar Al-Assad.
Assad fled Syria to Russia where he was given asylum after anti-regime groups captured the capital, Damascus, on Sunday, putting an end to the rule of the Baath Party, which had been in power since 1963.
Shortly afterwards, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced the collapse of a UN-monitored disengagement agreement, which established a buffer zone between Israel and Syria.
The Israeli army took control of the mountain summit of Mount Hermon on the Syrian side of the border, and several other locations. including sending tank squadrons to the outskirts of Damascus.
The army also mounted dozens of air strikes against military bases, air defense stations and intelligence headquarters as well as long- and short-range missile depots, unconventional weapon stockpiles across Syria.
Israel claims that its military invasion inside Syrian territory are defensive to prevent any threat?
The Disengagement Agreement was signed on 31 May, 1974 between Syria and Israel in the presence of representatives of the United Nations, the former Soviet Union (Russia now) and the USA.
The agreement stipulates Israel’s withdrawal from all of the areas it had occupied during the 1973 war as well as an area of about 25 km2 that included Quneitra and other locations.
The agreement defines the current border between Israel and Syria along with the accompanying military arrangements, creating two separation lines – Israeli (blue) and Syrian (red) — with a buffer zone between them.
The agreement is monitored by the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), as it is tasked with maintaining the ceasefire between Israel and Syria following the 1973 Middle East War.
Middle East Monitor / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Palestine, Golan, Gaza…..the European land stealers loot.
Israel is bombing Lebanon despite a signed ceasefire! Israel is also bombing Syria, Gaza and the West Bank!
Then US, Germany, UK and others have the nerve to look at all these breeches of national sovereignty and screech, “Israel has a right to defend itself!” While Israel is the one doing most of the killings, the bombings, the ethnic cleanings, the starvation’s and the assassinations!
What a dystopian reality we live it! All Israel’s murderous aggression’s are describe as it “defending” itself! While people trying to protect themselves from Israel are called “terrorists”! What a world!
Very well put AM –said with feeling !