The rebels reportedly began filing into the demilitarized zone between Syria and Israel on Saturday and threatened to capture the Golan Heights. Most of Syrian President Assad's armed forces have left the area, Ynet reported.
According to Ynet, the Israeli troops deployed to the disputed region will serve as a back-up for Israel?s elite forces and operational artillery units patrolling the Golan Heights.
Israeli military are said to be shielding workers and engineers who are finishing constructing defensive barriers on the border. The fence is equipped with special sensors that will signal about any attempt to breach it.
Rebels reportedly shot firearms near the Syrian-Israeli border in the zone, which has been demilitarized ever since the Israeli-Arab truce of 1973. The armistice can be over now.
"We are now in front of the occupied Golan, the blessed land sold by Hafez Assad," Ynet has cited a rebel in a video clip posted online Saturday night.
"For 40 years, not a single gunshot has been fired on this land. For 40 years, not a single gunshot has been fired towards Israel," the rebel went on to day. "We will free the Golan and it will return to the free Syrian people, with the help of Allah."
Earlier reports said the southern Syrian reaches had effectively been abandoned by the government?s troops that were redeployed to fight militants in the country?s central and northern regions. This situation has raised concerns among Jordanian and Israeli officials.
Voice of Russia, jta.org, TASS
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