{"id":155444,"date":"2025-11-27T09:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/155444\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:47:06","slug":"israel-rules-out-normalization-with-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/155444\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel rules out normalization with Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2025-11-27T09:39:30+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News \u2013 Middle East<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned on<br \/>\nThursday that Iran-backed Houthis and other armed groups in Syria may be<br \/>\npreparing attacks on the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n<p>During a closed session of the Knesset\u2019s Foreign<br \/>\nAffairs and Defense Committee, excerpts of which aired on Israel\u2019s Kan<br \/>\nbroadcaster, Katz dismissed the prospect of near-term security arrangements or<br \/>\nnormalization with Damascus, revealing that Israel is preparing for scenarios<br \/>\nin which Syrian forces or associated groups attempt to strike Israeli<br \/>\ncommunities or threaten Druze areas in the Golan region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Syria-s-shifting-stance-Is-normalization-with-Israel-on-the-horizon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Syria&#8217;s shifting stance: Is normalization with Israel on the horizon?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His remarks came as the Israeli army <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Israel-starts-military-drill-near-Syrian-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">launched<\/a> \u201cMagen<br \/>\nOz-Shield of Strength&#8221;, a two-day military drill along the Syrian frontier<br \/>\ndesigned to simulate multi-front threats through surprise alerts, rapid force<br \/>\nmobilization, air support, and automated supply drops.<\/p>\n<p>US-brokered talks aimed at reaching a security<br \/>\ndeal\u2014including an Israeli withdrawal from recently seized areas\u2014have reportedly<br \/>\ncollapsed after Damascus rejected a \u201cproposed humanitarian corridor\u201d to Suwayda<br \/>\nas \u201ca breach of sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime in December<br \/>\n2024, Israel has intensified operations inside Syria, targeting weapons<br \/>\nstockpiles, military convoys, and entrenched positions, while expanding its<br \/>\ncontrol in key buffer zones near Mount Hermon (Jabal al-Sheikh).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Israel-s-expansion-in-Syria-A-looming-threat-to-Iraq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Israel&#8217;s expansion in Syria: A looming threat to Iraq<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025-11-27T09:39:30+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News \u2013 Middle East Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12196,85,46,94108,43,30141,94109,4713],"class_list":{"0":"post-155444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israel-rules-out-normalization-with-damascus","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-normalization","14":"tag-security-agreement","15":"tag-syria"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}