Katz: Israel won’t leave Syria buffer zone, Sharaa will ‘look up at Mount Hermon and see the IDF’

Defense Minister Israel Katz reiterates again that the Israeli military will not leave its buffer zone in southern Syria, during a visit to the area today.

“We will not move from Mount Hermon and the security zone as long as there are jihadist threats to the State of Israel. The message to the president of Syria is clear — when you wake up in the morning in the palace in Damascus and look up at Mount Hermon and see the IDF, you know that we are here to defend our communities and our border,” he says.

Katz adds that Israel “acted against a Turkish attempt to establish itself in Syria, while putting Israel’s security interests at risk,” referring to last week’s strike on a Syrian airbase.

“We made this clear and will stand by it in the future as well,” he adds.