{"id":81063,"date":"2025-12-08T10:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=81063"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:47:30","slug":"netanyahu-israel-southern-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/netanyahu-israel-southern-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu: \u201cIsrael will not withdraw from occupied areas in southern Syria\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister <a title=\"Benjamin Netanyahu news\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?s=Netanyahu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> delivered a firm message during a conference with senior Foreign Ministry officials, declaring that Israel has no intention of pulling back from the territories it controls in southern Syria. Emphasizing the strategic importance of the areas adjacent to the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon (Jabal al-Sheikh), Netanyahu made clear that maintaining control over these zones remains a core national priority.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Israel rejects any pullout from southern Syria<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Netanyahu said Israel views the buffer zones near the Golan Heights as essential for national security and underscored that withdrawal is not on the table. \u201cWe want to preserve these strategic assets,\u201d he stated, pointing to long-standing concerns over regional threats along Israel\u2019s northern frontier.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Possibility of security arrangements with Damascus<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Despite the firm stance, Netanyahu expressed hope that Israel and the Syrian government could reach an understanding regarding the demilitarization of southern Syria. Such an arrangement, he noted, could also help ensure the protection of the local Druze communities.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Golan region tensions remain high<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Netanyahu\u2019s remarks come amid renewed debate over the future of the Golan Heights and its surrounding areas. The Israeli leader\u2019s insistence on holding the current lines suggests that geopolitical tensions along the northern border are unlikely to ease in the near term.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Netanyahu illegally visits Israeli troops beyond the designated ceasefire line in Syria\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJ_ooWrymSY\" width=\"315\" height=\"576\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a firm message during a conference with senior Foreign Ministry officials, declaring that Israel has no intention of pulling back from the territories it controls in southern Syria. Emphasizing the strategic importance of the areas adjacent to the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon (Jabal al-Sheikh), Netanyahu made clear that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":81064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,14],"tags":[29338,267,77159,270,9002],"class_list":["post-81063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-world","tag-golan-heights","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-netanyahu","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81065,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81063\/revisions\/81065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}