Responding to al-Sharaa, Katz: Israel Will Not Withdraw from Mount Hermon or Syria Buffer Zone

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Responding to al-Sharaa, Katz: Israel Will Not Withdraw from Mount Hermon or Syria Buffer Zone Welat TV – Erbil Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz responded to Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s reaffirmation that the Golan Heights are Syrian territory, saying the strategic plateau in northeastern Syria is an “integral and eternal part of Israel". According to The Times of Israel, Katz said on Wednesday, September 23, that the Israeli military would not withdraw from Mount Hermon and the security zone it controls in Syria, citing what he described as a “jihadist threat” to Israel’s borders a…