{"id":619579,"date":"2026-09-18T03:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619579\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T03:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:24:10","slug":"syria-warns-israel-poses-the-greatest-threat-to-middle-east-stability-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619579\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria warns Israel poses \u2018the greatest threat\u2019 to Middle East stability | Conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNSC meeting on Syria turned into a heated debate between Israel and Turkiye over troops in Syrian territory.<\/p>\n

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The United Nations Security Council\u2019s monthly meeting on Syria\u2019s post-Assad transition has seen Syria, Israel and Turkiye trade accusations over who can rightfully have a military presence on Syrian soil.<\/p>\n

Syria\u2019s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ibrahim Olabi, told council members on Thursday that he had hoped to focus on the country\u2019s progress but was compelled to address Israel\u2019s actions in Syria, according to a UN summary of the meeting.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIsrael penetrated our villages, displaced our people, bombed our facilities while we chose to spare the region further suffering,\u201d he said, accusing Israel of responding to mediation efforts and dialogue with \u201cair strikes, incursions and violations\u201d.<\/p>\n

Olabi said Israeli aggression poses \u201cthe greatest threat facing the stability of the entire region, not just Syria\u201d, pointing to an emergency declaration by 44 nations outside the council chamber that condemned a visit by Israeli leadership to Jabal al-Sheikh inside Syrian territory on September 9 as an unlawful act and a \u201cblatant violation\u201d of international law.<\/p>\n

\"PermanentPermanent Representative of Israel to the UN Danny Danon at a UNSC meeting at UN headquarters in New York City [File: AFP]<\/p>\n

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon downplayed Israel\u2019s presence in Syria and shifted the focus to Turkiye.<\/p>\n

He warned that Ankara planned to expand its military capabilities inside Syria and take over the country, the UN report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Israel\u2019s tiny defensive buffer is considered a threat to Syrian stability, then what about a foreign power that controls a much larger portion of Syrian territory and is building its military presence there? I am talking about Turkiye,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTurkiye has 20,000 troops and over 100 bases in Syria, controlling 5 percent of its territory, 50 times larger than Israel\u2019s \u2018security buffer\u2019. Turkiye is now following the Iranian proxy playbook.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turkish Ambassador to the UN Ahmet Yildiz said Turkish forces based in Syria were there at the invitation of Damascus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe categorically reject Israel\u2019s attempts to smear Turkiye\u2019s legitimate cooperation with Syria and portray it as a threat in an effort to justify its own violations of international law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He accused Israel of undermining this trajectory through \u201creckless attacks\u201d and incursions into Syrian territory, and called on Israel to de-escalate and withdraw its forces.<\/p>\n

Syria\u2019s ambassador denounced the debate.<\/p>\n

\u201cSyria\u2019s meetings should not be talking about proxy issues any more. That was the case during the regime era. It should no longer be the case. It\u2019s frankly traumatising,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNSC meeting on Syria turned into a heated debate between Israel and Turkiye over troops in Syrian territory.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1153,85,46,47,43,227267,4713,20766,1582,24933,4497],"class_list":["post-619579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-conflict","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-occupied-golan-heights","tag-syria","tag-syrias-war","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-syria-border","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619579","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=619579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}