The hidden dimensions of Tel Aviv’s conspiracy against Syria; the major Palestinian refugee crisis.
According to Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed, in light of the recent developments in Syria, it seems that the Zionist regime has implemented part of a long-term expansionist strategy aimed at gaining greater control over Syrian lands, including vital areas it had previously occupied.
After the fall of the former Syrian government headed by Bashar al-Assad on December 8, 2024, the Zionist regime began its direct and rapid steps toward achieving its occupationist goals in Syria. First, by canceling the 1974 de-escalation agreement, it entered the buffer zone with Syria in the Golan Heights, occupied Mount Hermon from the Syrian side, and stationed its forces there.
However, the Zionist regime’s occupationist movements in Syria are not limited to expanding the buffer zone or taking control of strategic locations, but rather the regime seeks to strengthen its military presence and settlements in the Golan Heights. The Israeli settlement expansion plan in the Golan Heights began on December 15, by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to increase the Zionist population in the Golan Heights, and this plan is supported by the administration of US President Donald Trump.
On the other hand, the Israeli regime has taken advantage of the security vacuum created by the fall of the Bashar al-Assad government and the weakness and passivity of the country’s new government headed by Abu Muhammad al-Julani to carry out heavy airstrikes against Syria’s strategic weapons depots and within two months has almost completely disarmed Syria so that there is practically no power to fight the Israeli occupation in this country.
Evidence shows that the real goals of the Israeli regime’s plan in Syria go beyond military and security control over this country.
Alarm bell for Palestinian refugees in Syria
Regardless of the numerous and dangerous projects that the Zionist regime is pursuing in Syria, including inciting the country’s Druze to establish an independent state dependent on Israel, the Palestinians also find themselves in direct danger as a result of the Zionist regime’s continuous invasion of Syrian territory, because this could mean that Palestinians and their camps throughout Syria will be targeted by the Zionist occupiers under various pretexts, especially since in the recent stage the occupying regime has directly targeted the issue of Palestinian refugees, which is a central issue in the Palestinian cause, and intends to eliminate this issue forever.
In this context, we should mention the attacks that the Zionist regime has recently carried out against some places in Syria under the pretext of the presence of forces and weapons of Palestinian resistance groups there. One example in this regard is the airstrike by the occupying regime on the outskirts of Damascus on February 8 of this year, when the occupiers claimed to have targeted a Hamas weapons depot inside Syria. However, in this attack, the Zionists targeted an area near a Palestinian refugee camp, which has increased the Palestinian refugees’ concern that Israel’s attacks on their camps in Syria will spread.
The Zionist regime and the United States have always targeted Palestinian refugee camps in various countries in the region in various ways, including creating sedition and internal conflict in them, and in fact, suppressing Palestinian camps in the region is a recurring American-Zionist approach.
In this regard, we should mention the efforts of the occupying regime to empty Palestinian camps in Lebanon during the country’s civil war in the 1970s. After 1982, following the heavy and long attack of the Zionist regime against Lebanon, the regime sought to destroy the Palestinian population in the camps inside Lebanon through bombing and brutal massacres. The most obvious example in this regard is the horrific massacre of the Sabra and Shatila camps that took place from September 16 to 18, 1982, in which nearly 4,000 Palestinian refugee civilians were massacred in the most brutal way possible.
In light of the weakness and suspicious passivity of the current Syrian regime headed by Al-Jolani, as well as considering the international silence regarding the aggressions and occupations of the Zionist regime in Syrian territory, Palestinian refugees in the camps in this country are concerned that the brutal crimes of the Zionists against the Palestinian refugees will be repeated.
It is clear that the Palestinians in Syria alone cannot confront the plots of the Zionist regime and any attempts by this regime to target them, especially considering the difficult conditions that have now arisen for them in the wake of the Gaza war and the fall of the previous Syrian government.
However, the Palestinian refugees, like the Syrian people, have concluded that popular resistance is the only option before them to confront the occupation and aggressions of the Zionist enemy.
Currently, given the lack of an official power in Syria to stand against Israeli aggression, Palestinians and Syrians, who have suffered common suffering and challenges, need a high level of cooperation and coordination to confront the plots of the Zionist occupiers; especially since the Syrian people now find themselves in great danger similar to the terrible event that befell the Palestinian people in 1948, and therefore they must learn a lesson from the fate of Palestine.