Report: Syria rebuffed UN request to place early warning systems in buffer zone

The UN force tasked with overseeing the 1974 disengagement agreement between Israel and Syria recently approached the two countries about placing early warning systems in the buffer zone separating them, Channel 10 reports.

Israel gave the OK for the UN to install the equipment, the report says, but Syria rejected the request, apparently due to concerns the technology could be used to track regime troops and their allies as they return to the border area.

The report says the equipment included radar systems that could detect the entry of unauthorized forces to the buffer zone, as well as technology that could detect and warn of explosive devices.