Israel will regret its attack against Syria, a top Iranian official has warned. Saeed Jalili, head of Iran’s National Security Council, made the remark during a visit to Damascus. Israel has implicitly admitted to bombing a military center in Syria.
Syrian officials, including President Bashar Assad, earlier warned that the Wednesday airstrike on a military research center in Jamraya outside Damascus will not go unanswered.
Border buffer zone to fend off jihadists
Israel is reportedly planning to create a buffer zone inside Syria along the countries' shared border. The zone will be established with the help of local residents, and will curb the actions of international Islamist militants fighting in Syria and other hostile elements, British newspaper The Sunday Times reported. The plan has been presented for consideration to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the report said.
The buffer zone would operate in conjunction with a border wall currently under construction in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and is needed to prevent mortar and rocket attacks on Israel, the newspaper reported.
“A buffer zone set up with the co-operation of local villagers lies at the heart of the plan. If the country remains unstable we might have to stay there for years,” The Times quoted a military planner as saying.
The need for increased border security came after President Assad lost control of Syria; he can no longer ensure that the truce with Israel is maintained on the ground.
“We know that today on the other side of the border with Syria the Syrian army has moved away, and in its place global jihad elements have moved in,” the newspaper quoted Netanyahu as saying.
Targets in Tel Aviv reportedly considered
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