More than 250 military installations in Syria came under Israeli airstrikes.
The IDF announced attacks on air bases, weapons depots and production facilities. Syrian human rights activists in London confirmed that since the overthrow of Assad, Israel has carried out about 250 strikes in Syria.
IDF Army Radio Galei said on December 10, citing a source, that it was “one of the largest strike operations in the history of the Air Force.”
By available dataamong the targets of the Israel Defense Forces were the army bases of the ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Dozens of fighters, dozens of ground-based air-missile systems, production sites and missile warehouses were hit.
After the fall of the Assad regime, Israeli forces crossed the demilitarized zone and entered Syria for the first time since the 1973 war, The New York Times writes, citing sources.
Israeli ground forces openly entered Syrian territory for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973, crossing the demilitarized border zone. This was reported on Sunday, December 8, by the newspaper The New York Times (NYT) citing two unnamed Israeli officials.
Journalists also cite IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi's statement that Israel “has stationed troops on Syrian territory.” Thus, Halevi confirmed that the military had gone beyond the demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights, but did not provide details, writes NYT.
The deployment of Israeli forces outside the buffer zone is a significant shift in Israeli policy towards Syria, as it is the first open entry of IDF forces into Syrian territory since the 1974 ceasefire agreement, the newspaper further writes.
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