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Amnesty International said connected Thursday (May 14, 2026) that the Israeli army's demolition of civilian homes successful confederate Syria since the autumn of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad should beryllium investigated arsenic "war crimes".
Israel moved its forces into a UN-patrolled demilitarised portion connected the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights aft Assad's December 2024 toppling by Islamist forces whom it considers jihadists.
It has besides launched hundreds of strikes connected Syria and carries retired regular incursions into the country's southbound wherever it demands a demilitarised zone.
"The Israeli military's deliberate demolition of civilian homes" successful confederate Syria's Quneitra state since December 2024 "with nary implicit subject necessity, should beryllium investigated arsenic warfare crimes", Amnesty said successful a statement.
"Israel has an work to marque reparations for these superior violations of planetary humanitarian law," the rights radical added.
Amnesty said that the time Assad fell, Israeli forces entered 3 villages and towns successful the UN-demilitarised portion successful Quneitra province, "conducting location raids and ordering residents to leave".
"Over the pursuing six months, the Israeli subject destroyed oregon damaged astatine slightest 23 civilian structures successful 3 villages," Amnesty said, adding that witnesses described the buildings arsenic "their and their neighbours' homes".
The rights radical said it utilized outer imagery to verify harm and demolition to 23 structures successful the villages.
"Securing Israel's borderline cannot beryllium utilized to warrant bulldozing and blowing up people's homes and villages connected the territory of different country," Kristine Beckerle, Amnesty's lawman determination manager for the Middle East and North Africa said successful the statement.
Israeli operations successful southbound Syria person continued adjacent arsenic the caller Islamist authorities successful Damascus person held talks with Israeli officials successful caller months arsenic they borderline towards a information statement aft decades of hostilities.
Israel has occupied astir of Syria's Golan Heights since 1967, annexing it successful 1981 successful a determination not recognised by astir of the planetary community.
