Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the ousting of Syria’s regime leader Bashar al-Assad on Sunday as an “historic day” that followed the blows delivered by Israel against Assad’s supporters Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
On a visit to the area near the border with Syria, he said he had ordered Israeli forces to seize areas in the buffer zone to ensure Israel‘s security and said: “We will not allow any hostile force to establish itself on our border”.