IDF Engineers Reshaping Syrian Frontier, Fortifying It Against October 7-Style Attacks

IDF Engineers Reshaping Syrian Frontier, Fortifying It Against October 7-Style Attacks

The Israeli military has deployed combat engineers to reshape the Syrian buffer zone to prevent an October 7-style incursion into northern Israel. An engineering unit of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) was working at breakneck speed to secure the border as rebel forces consolidated their power after the Iran-backed Bashar al-Assad regime collapsed over the weekend.

The IDF created a security zone beyond the Israeli border after Islamic rebels moved into southern Syria in the wake of Assad’s collapse.

Combat engineers in the newly-secured buffer zone were using heavy earth-moving equipment to create trenches and obstacles to prevent hostile forces from advancing toward the Israeli border. “The work includes new minefields, deploying explosive charges and digging deep trenches,” the Israeli news website YNET reported Wednesday.

YNET reported Israeli defense measures along the Syria border:

The IDF is accelerating its “New East” project and adding new combat engineering elements along the international border in the Golan Heights to prevent the scenario of armed terrorists infiltrating Israel.

The 210th Division’s engineering unit, which oversees the Golan Heights sector, mobilized additional work teams from other regions in recent days to expedite the plan that began even before the start of the war in Gaza – with the goal of disrupting vehicle-mounted incursions using light off-road vehicles.

Tactical combat engineering lessons learned partly from how Hamas’ Nukhba terrorists’ breached the western Negev are being applied in the Golan.

The work includes new minefields, deploying explosive charges and digging deep trenches. The IDF is prioritizing fortifications in areas closer to threatened settlements in the area and sectors with limited visibility, such as the hilly northern Golan or the rocky Wadi ar Ruqqad in the south.

Some operations involve engineering explosives to give the buffer zone near the border a “facelift” not seen since the 1974 cease-fire agreement with Syria.

“We’ve also leased civilian equipment and dozens of bulldozers and excavators are working swiftly and efficiently. It’s a dynamic border obstacle with components tailored to the threat,” one of the division’s officers said on Tuesday.

France, Russia, and Muslim states gang up on Israel, demand withdrawal from Syria buffer zone

Meanwhile, France, Russia, and several Muslim countries ganged up on Israel, calling for IDF’s ‘withdrawal’ from the newly-created security zone.

“Israel must withdraw forces from the buffer zone separating the annexed Golan Heights from Syrian territory, France’s foreign ministry said Wednesday,” the French newspaper Le Monde reported. “France’s intervention follows condemnations from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia and Turkey, as well as a US call for the Israeli incursion to be “temporary”.”

On Sunday, the IDF assured that the activities in the buffer zone were being coordinated with the United Nations, which is responsible for securing a demilitarized zone along the Israel-Syria border under a 1973 agreement. Over the weekend, the Israeli military had to step in after UN forces came under attack from the advancing rebel forces seeking to control the area.

IDF operates in Syria to expand the buffer zone, spreading into areas right past the border and thwarting Syrian regime weapons getting into the hands of jihadists@swiftjournalism reports from Majdal Shams pic.twitter.com/cSRUtdOANb

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) December 11, 2024

IDF destroys nearly 80 percent of the former Assad regime’s military capabilities

In a span of roughly four days, the Israeli armed forces have succeeded in destroying nearly 80 percent of the ousted Syrian regime’s strategic military assets. The IDF carried out hundreds of strikes targeting the former regime’s WMD capabilities, naval bases, airfields, and weapons stockpiles, Israeli media reports confirm.

The IDF Struck Strategic Weapons Stockpiles in Syria:

Within the last 48 hours, the IDF struck most of the strategic weapons stockpiles in Syria, preventing them from falling into the hands of terrorist elements.

*Naval Operations:* Last night (Monday), Israeli Navy missile… pic.twitter.com/sss83nzGpS

— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) December 10, 2024

The Times of Israel reports:

Following a major 48-hour bombing campaign in Syria, the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday said it had destroyed most of the former Bashar al-Assad regime’s strategic military capabilities, in an effort to prevent advanced weaponry from falling into the hands of hostile elements.

In a statement, the IDF said that its Air Force and Navy had carried out over 350 strikes against “strategic targets” in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime over the weekend, taking out “most of the strategic weapons stockpiles in Syria.”

The military estimated that it had destroyed 70-80 percent of the former Assad regime’s strategic military capabilities.

The operation was dubbed “Bashan Arrow” within the military, after the biblical name for the Golan Heights and southern Syria region.

The IDF released footage from the campaign, during which it said over 320 targets were struck across all of Syria.

⭕ In 48 hours, the IDF struck most of the strategic weapons stockpiles in Syria to prevent them from falling into the hands of terrorist elements. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻:

⚓ Naval Operations: Israeli Navy missile ships struck 2 Syrian Navy facilities… pic.twitter.com/6N1fz7BiMF

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 10, 2024

Israeli strikes eliminate two senior Hamas commanders behind October 7th massacre

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed two senior Hamas terrorist commanders who took part in the October 7 massacre, the IDF announced Wednesday. The slain terrorists were identified as Fehmi Salmi, a commander of Hamas’ Nukhba forces, and Salah Dahham, who headed Hamas’ Paragliding Unit.

The IDF, backed by Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, “struck and eliminated the terrorist Fehmi Salmi, a Nukhba Company Commander in Hamas’ Zeitoun Battalion who was operating at the time of the strike from inside a structure that previously served as the Al-Falah school,” the military said in a statement.

“On October 7th, Fehmi Salmi led the attack on the IDF ‘Paga’ outpost on the Gazan border in southern Israel with his platoon, during which 14 IDF soldiers were killed. During the war, Salmi led numerous attacks against IDF troops,” the IDF statement disclosed.

Another Israel airstrike “eliminated the terrorist Salah Dahham, the head of Hamas’ Paragliding Unit, in the area of Jabaliya,” the IDF said.

Hamas used paragliders to storm the Nova music festival in southern Israel, murdering more than 360 attendees.

“On October 7th, Salah Dahham led Hamas’ aerial infiltration into communities in southern Israel, a key part of Hamas’ murderous attacks on civilians,” the IDF added.

BREAKING 🚨

The head of Hamas’ paragliding unit has been eliminated – IDF pic.twitter.com/wD7ZrPJLSg

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) December 11, 2024

U.S. charity World Central Kitchen fires 62 Gaza terrorists on its payrolls

The U.S. charity World Central Kitchen fired more than 60 Gaza-based employees who were found to be members of terrorist organizations. The revelation highlights the widespread infiltration of foreign NGOs and media outlets by Palestinians affiliated with Gaza terrorist groups.

While the American charity took swift action, the United Nations’ Palestinian ‘refugee’ agency (UNRWA) remains deeply entangled in the Palestinian terrorist ecosystem.

The most important story that the mainstream media ignored today.

World Central Kitchen fired dozens of their Palestinian staff in Gaza after discovering that at least 62 of them WERE LINKED TO TERROR GROUPS.

Unlike @UNRWA, World Central Kitchen understands that it shouldn’t… pic.twitter.com/obfowpTJwj

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) December 11, 2024

According to an official Israeli estimate, around 10 percent of UNRWA’s Gaza-based 12,000 employees are members of one or the other terrorist organization. “Israeli intelligence assesses that some 10% of all UNRWA employees in Gaza have ties to terror organizations, in addition to at least 12 employees it says were involved in the October 7 terror onslaught in southern Israel,” The Times of Israel reported in January 2024.

The affiliation and stance of UNRWA’s foreign staffers are equally troubling. In 2017, the then-UNRWA chief, Pierre Krahenbuhl, met with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist leaders, telling them that “we are one” and “no one can separate us,” a recently published investigative report by the UNWATCH disclosed.

The i24NEWS reported Wednesday:

At least 62 Palestinian World Central Kitchen workers in the Gaza Strip were fired, according to a report in Reuters on Tuesday.

The US-based organization received documentation proving these employees were linked to Hamas or other terrorist groups in Gaza. Some of them even participated in the October 7 massacre.

In a statement, the World Kitchen Organization confirmed that it “made changes” in the organization after Israel demanded to investigate its recruitment procedures in Gaza. (…)

According to the source, one of the workers, a terrorist named Hazmi Kadih, certainly participated in the massacre and was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on November 30.

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