As Israel marks 1,000 days of war, journalists Yinon Yitzhak and Amichai Stein (i24NEWS) visited the Israeli buffer zone in Syria. They interviewed local residents who previously lived and worked inside Israeli territory and now overlook it from the Syrian side. The report underscores the strategic value of the zone, where no war originated, as a key security buffer on the northern front.
On the 1,000-day mark of the war that began on October 7, 2023, journalists Yinon Yitzhak and Amichai Stein (i24NEWS) toured the Israeli security buffer zone in southern Syria. The zone, established after the fall of the Assad regime, is intended to prevent cross-border attacks from a front that did not itself launch the war. During the visit, the journalists met Syrian residents who had previously crossed the border to work inside Israel and now, from their homes in the buffer zone, watch Israeli territory from a distance.
As The Zioneer previously reported, Defense Minister Israel Katz has repeatedly stated that the IDF will maintain an open-ended presence in security zones across Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza — calling these buffer zones a central achievement of the war and a necessary lesson of October 7. A recent poll highlighted by The Zioneer found broad Israeli public support for security zones on all fronts.
The report, published as a video, frames the buffer zone as a strategic asset that provides both defensive depth and a visible deterrent on a front where no invasion originated but where threats could still emerge.
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