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Beirut (AFP) – Quneitra province in south-west Syria includes the Golan Heights, most of which are annexed and occupied by Israel
Syrian government forces raised the flag in the buffer zone separating the Syrian territory of the Israeli territory. Golan, Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, said:
The part of the province east of the buffer zone fell almost completely under control of the regime after a brief military offensive followed by deals by which the rebels surrendered or were evacuated.
– At the gates of Israel –
The rocky plateau known as the Golan Heights overlooks the Galilee region in Israel and Lake Tiberius to the south and west
Israel He seized 1,200 square kilometers (460 square miles) of the Golan Heights of Syria during the Six Day War in 1967 and then annexed it in a movement never internationally recognized.
The region is strategically important for Syria, because it also controls a key road connecting the Jordanian border to the capital Damascus
– Under the control of the rebels –
After decades of calm, tensions have become intensified in Golan with 2011 uprising against Syrian President Bashar In 1965, rebels fighting Assad forces launched coordinated attacks in the region and began to seize parts of the province.
The following year, rebel fighters and jihadists from the al Qaeda affiliate expanded their control. , seizing the passage between the Syrian part of the Golan Heights and the part annexed by Israel
– Israel-Syria flash point –
In September 2014, the Israeli army shot down a Syrian military plane on the Golan Heights in the most Serious incident cases on the heights since the beginning of the conflict.
The region witnessed fierce fighting between the rebels and the regime, with fires that sometimes fell on occupied territories and provoked Israeli retaliation. 9016] Israel opposes in particular the presence of foreign fighters allied with the regime near its borders: namely, the Iranian forces or the units of the Lebanese Hezbollah militia
On January 18, 2015, a raid blamed against Israel killed six Hezbollah members and an Iranian general close to Quneitra.
On May 10, 2018, Israel conducted dozens of raids against Iranian targets, claiming that it was responding to the Iranian rocket fire on the Golan part of the Golan. , Israel said it had shot down a Syrian plane that had entered its airspace over the Golan Heights, a version denied by Damascus, that the plane was carrying out operations against the jihadists
– Regime Progress –
A "de-escalation" agreement negotiated by Russia, the United States and Jordan has seen southern Syria return to relative calm for the last year.
But this this month has become a new front for advancing Syrian forces p
The regime launched an assault on Quneitra on July 15 with heavy bombing.
Under pressure, the rebels agreed on July 19 to allow to the regime's forces to take over and began evacuating the next day
to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, the regime now holds 90% of the Syrian part of the province. [19659022]
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