Shafaq News..Syria Denounces Israel’s Sufa 53 Border Encroachment Project
Damascus said the work violates the 1974 disengagement agreement as the Sufa 53 project adds an 8-meter road, earth berms and observation posts.
- On Sunday, Israel resumed excavation and fortification work on the "Sufa 53" military project near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, according to Al-Ikhbariya television.
- Known as the "Great Storm," the project began in 2022 inside the buffer zone established by the 1974 disengagement agreement between Syria and Israel.
- Israeli forces have advanced between 300 and 1,000 meters into the buffer zone, while local accounts report appropriation of about 7,000 dunams of agricultural land in Jabata al-Khashab.
- Syria's Foreign Ministry, Qatar, and Jordan denounced the work as a "flagrant violation" of international law, with Damascus reaffirming its right to exercise full sovereignty over its territory.
- Israel previously cited "security considerations and the need to prevent potential threats along its border" for operations, though Syria characterized the recent ground activities as an "aggressive approach.
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Israel shells Syria's Quneitra while Qatar and Jordan condemn its excavation near occupied Golan
Israel shells Syria's Quneitra while Qatar and Jordan condemn its excavation near occupied Golan Israeli forces shelled farmland between Buraiqa and Kodana in southern Quneitra, Syria's Al-Ikhbariah TV reported on Sunday. Meanwhile, Syria, Qatar and Jordan denounced Israel's resumed construction on the "Sofa 53" project in Syria's Quneitra province. The project, also called the "Great Storm", is a military road that Israel began building in 202…
Syria condemns Israeli ‘Sufa 53’ project in Quneitra countryside
LONDON: The Syrian Arab Republic condemned on Sunday Israeli excavation and construction work in the southern Quneitra countryside, saying the activity violated the 1974 Disengagement Agreement and international law. The Syrian Foreign Ministry, in a statement posted on its official Telegram channel, cited the completion of work on the “Sufa 53 Line” as the latest in a series of Israeli violations of Syrian territory. The ministry said Israeli m…
On Sunday morning, the Israeli occupying forces resumed excavation work in the southern Syrian countryside of Quneitra, as part of a project to be carried out along the line of separation with the occupied Syrian Golan, in a step that restores Syrian concerns about the expansion of Israeli incursions and their repercussions on agricultural land and the local population.
The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned Israel for building fortification facilities in the province of Quneitra as a direct violation of the agreement on disengagement of forces in the Golan Heights, and stated in the statement of the Syrian foreign policy agency that Damascus strongly condemned Israeli violations of the 1974 agreement, most recently the completion of work on the Sufa-53 line, the transfer of RIA "Novosty".Lin…
On Sunday, Qatar and Jordan condemned the completion of the Israeli occupation of the so-called Suva 53 line in Quneitra governorate, affirming that it constituted a violation of Syria ' s sovereignty and territorial integrity, a violation of international law and the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement, and a threat to the security and stability of the region.
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