{"id":28486,"date":"2024-12-16T14:06:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T14:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/first-thing-israel-strikes-syria-as-netanyahu-approves-settlement-expansion\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T14:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T14:06:22","slug":"first-thing-israel-strikes-syria-as-netanyahu-approves-settlement-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/first-thing-israel-strikes-syria-as-netanyahu-approves-settlement-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Israel strikes Syria as Netanyahu approves settlement expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli PM approved plan to double Israeli population in Golan Heights. Plus, South Korea\u2019s constitutional court begins reviewing presidential impeachment<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\">Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/15\/israel-launches-dozens-of-airstrikes-on-syria-despite-rebel-leader-peace-pledge\">bombed dozens of sites in Syria<\/a> overnight, despite the Syrian rebel leader, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani aka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/10\/syria-new-leader-two-identities-ahmed-al-sharaa-abu-mohammed-al-jolani\">Ahmed al-Sharaa<\/a>, saying his Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group was not interested in conflict with Israel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Israel bombing in Syria?<\/strong> Israeli air raids have hit bases, heavy weapons, sites associated with the former Assad regime\u2019s missile and chemical weapons programme, and destroyed Syria\u2019s small naval force in port of Latakia. The scale of the Israeli bombing campaign has surprised many western capitals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did Netanyahu justify further settlements?<\/strong> He justified expanding Israeli settlements in the occupied Golan Heights \u201cin light of the war and the new front facing Syria\u201d and a desire to double the Israeli population in the area. \u201cWe will continue to hold on to it, cause it to blossom and settle in it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/16\/first-thing-israel-strikes-syria-netanyahu-approves-settlement-expansion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli PM approved plan to double Israeli population in Golan Heights. Plus, South Korea\u2019s constitutional court begins reviewing presidential impeachment Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Israel bombed dozens of sites in Syria overnight, despite the Syrian rebel leader, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani aka Ahmed al-Sharaa, saying his &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: Israel strikes Syria as Netanyahu approves settlement expansion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/first-thing-israel-strikes-syria-as-netanyahu-approves-settlement-expansion\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: Israel strikes Syria as Netanyahu approves settlement expansion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}