Ben-Zion Maklis, the Zioneer analyst, writes that on the 1,000th day of the war, the Israeli security buffer zone has expanded by nearly 1,000 square kilometers into Syrian, Lebanese, and Gazan territory.
On the 1,000th day since the October 7, 2023 massacre, Ben-Zion Maklis — an analyst and commentator for The Zioneer — published an assessment that Israel's security buffer zone has expanded by nearly 1,000 square kilometers into Syrian, Lebanese, and Gazan territory. Maklis did not provide a detailed breakdown of the areas or the source of the measurement. The figure follows a series of IDF ground operations in southern Lebanon, where the military has established a security zone stretching up to 10 kilometers north of the border, as The Zioneer reported on June 18. The broader claim of nearly 1,000 sq km across all three fronts has not been independently corroborated.
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