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The Russian Military Police established another observation post in the southern Syrian governorate of al-Quneitra to de-escalate tensions between Syria and Israel along the Golan Heights front, Captain 1st Rank Oleg Ignasyuk, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, announced on August 30.
“An additional observation post of the Russian military police has been set up in the interests of de-escalation of tension along the Bravo line in the zone of disengagement between the Israeli and Syrian armed forces in the al-Quneitra governorate,” the Russian military official said in a briefing, without elaborating.
Based on the 1974 Agreement on Disengagement, United Nations forces maintains a 235 square kilometers demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights. The zone straddles the Purple Line, separating the Israeli-occupied portion of Golan and the rest of Syria, where the west line is known as “Alpha”, and the east line as “Bravo”.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the new observation post was established in the western plains area of the town of Kodna in the western countryside of al-Quneitra.
Photos showing the new post were posted to social networks. The photos showed Russian policemen in the post manning heavy machine guns and carrying anti-drone systems.
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This was the 15 such posts to be established by the Russian Military Police on the Golan front, according to the London-based monitoring group.
Many of the posts were established after the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip last October. The war caused more tensions on the Golan front with Israel escalating its strikes on Syria amid an increase in rocket attacks on occupied Syrian territories in the Heights.
As stated by the deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, the main purpose of these posts is to de-escalate tensions between Syria and Israel.
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