r/chomsky • u/IwantitIwantit • 4d ago

News Israeli troops shoot Syrian protester as forces move beyond buffer zone

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/21/israeli-troops-shoot-syrian-protester-as-forces-move-beyond-buffer-zone
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u/05_legend 4d ago

Here we go again Israel

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u/IwantitIwantit 4d ago

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the Israeli troops were stationed at a barracks in the village.

“During a protest condemning the Israeli incursion, a young man was injured by Israeli forces’ gunfire in the village of Maariya, in the Daraa region,” the observatory said.

Israeli forces from Al Jazeera barracks “opened fire directly at the demonstrators”, wounding the man in the leg, it said. A villager from Maariya told AFP that Israeli soldiers had been entering his village and other nearby villages in recent days.

“When the Israelis entered … they sowed fear and horror among the people, the children, the women,” Ali al-Khalaf, 52, said. “So much so that some people fled to other nearby villages. They [Israeli troops] entered the villages of Maariya, Aabdyn and Jamlah.”

They were protesting Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights in case title wasn't clear.

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u/ManChildMusician 3d ago

So they pivoted to Syria bc Lebanon was too burdensome. Good to know that they only punch down.