In a Jan. 9 letter to the U.N. Security Council, Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, detailed more than 500 instances in which Syria violated its 1974 disengagement agreement with the Jewish state between Sept. 1 and Nov. 30, 2024.
The Bashar Assad regime collapsed on Dec. 8 during an offensive by opposition forces led by Sunni jihadi-linked revolutionary Ahmed al-Sharaa (aka Abu Mohammad al-Julani), head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and supported mainly by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army as part of the ongoing Syrian civil war that began in 2011. He is currently the de facto ruler.
“Israel is fully committed to implementing the disengagement of forces agreement and all relevant Security Council resolutions, as demonstrated by the Israel Defense Force’s consistent reporting to the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force,” he wrote in the 44-page letter.
“Despite their clear visibility, and the fact that the IDF informs of them regularly to the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, these violations continue to be excluded from the secretariat’s reports,” the Israeli envoy wrote. “I should be grateful if you would have this letter distributed as an official document of the Security Council.”
In a statement provided to JNS, Danon said “we demand that the council compel the Syrian government to comply with the agreement, in order to prevent Syrian violations that will increase tensions and instability in the region.”