Wednesday, 21 October 2026
A CHOICE BETWEEN DIFFERENT SHITS
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
ZELENSKY'S A CHUMP AND PUTIN'S A FUCKING BLOODTHIRSTY KILLER

Russian Imperialism Prepares its Winter Offensive on Ukraine
Featured image: Putin and Trump shaking hands at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Aug. 15, 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska. Source: Getty Images
On October 9, the US unilaterally lifted its sanctions on Russian oil in an aim to lower the ever increasing price of diesel. This comes amid the fuel crisis of Yankee imperialism, caused by the failed war of aggression on Iran and the subsequent blockade of the Hormuz strait and the vast energy infrastructure damage in the Gulf region – compounded by Russia’s decision to halt exports of diesel after Ukrainian strikes on vital energy infrastructure. Russian imperialism enters this deal seeking to expand its trade as an attempt to overcome some of the limitations that its relatively weak economic foundations impose on it, with the immediate purpose of filling its war coffers for its upcoming winter offensive in its war of aggression on Ukraine.
As the fourth year of the war of aggression on Ukraine by Russian imperialism nears its end, Russia is setting its aims on an intensive winter campaign, eager to convert their territorial gains on the now stagnant front lines into concrete concessions. Their aim is, as they have during every winter campaign in Ukraine, to make life during the cold winters of Ukraine unbearable for the Ukrainian people by targeting the main source of heating in the region, in an attempt at pressing their demands. Already in late September, Russia started heavily targeting energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s industrial east. In response, Ukraine has struck vital Russian oil refineries, prompting an export ban on diesel by Russia in order to maintain war preparedness and ensure energy supply in its offensive on the Ukrainian people.
Despite the concerns of Russian imperialism that attacks on its energy infrastructure might clog up its war efforts, throughout the Yankee imperialist war of aggression on Iran it stands ready to fulfill orders of shipments of oil and gas to the highest bidders when their imperialist competitors need to turn elsewhere for their energy needs.
Russia also seeks to take advantage of the firm ground that develops during the latter half of the winter season in Ukraine, putting an end to the so-called “rasputitsa” (mud-season), which makes traversal for armored vehicles much easier. This was also exploited during the winter campaign of Russian imperialism of 2025-2026 to intensify its armored assaults in Donetsk.
It is worth noting that despite fielding the fourth largest standing army in the world, Russian imperialism has after four years not been able to achieve its goals, and have found itself stuck in a quagmire on the Ukrainian front. As the front lines of the Russian offense have remained stagnant for the last year or so, Russian imperialism is slowly making the realization of other imperialist powers – that they cannot impose their will on the oppressed nations in the same way as before.


Here you can read our translation of a Punalippu article, detailing the recent attacks on Russian energy infrastucture:
Over the past week, the Trump regime has put pressure on Ukraine to stop targeting Russian oil refineries, citing concerns over the US diesel prices. In the same vein, on October 2, after an announcement by Emmanuel Macron, the imperialist powers of the G7 are now to release 100 million barrels of their emergency diesel and crude oil on the global market. The decision to release these 100 million barrels, was made directly after threats by Trump to halt the US export of diesel in an attempt to keep internal US prices low. In addition to the March decision by the International Energy Agency (IEA) to release 400 million out of their total 1,2 billion barrels of crude oil – the largest such release in history – this makes for a significant dent in the emergency reserves of the imperialist powers, forcing temporary trade agreements and alliances to shift in order to maneuver the ever decreasing supply of oil.
Zelensky Continues to Sell Out the Resisting People of Ukraine
It is not only the front lines of the war of aggression on Ukraine that remains unchanged, so does the country-selling character of the lackey Zelensky, who, as his people lay their lives on the line in defense of their land and freedom, continue to sell the resources of the Ukrainian people into the hands of imperialists.
On October 4, 15 arms deals were made with arms monopolies and contractors in Germany worth 8,5 billion EUR, including “counter‑drone capabilities – interceptors and small missiles, radars, UGVs, and artillery.” The funding for these deals is mainly the European Union (EU) loan of 90 billion EUR from April 23, 2026, as well as loans from the G7 Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) of 33,8 billion EUR, the World Bank loan of around 20 billion EUR, and 12,9 billion EUR from the IMF – increasing the foreign debt of the Ukrainian government from around 86 billion EUR at the end of 2021, to 210 billion EUR as of May 2026.
This debt comes in addition to the vast concessions made with Ukrainian resources and workforce, primarily to Yankee imperialism, but also to UK, French and German imperialism. In May 2025, a major extraction framework was laid between Zelensky and Yankee imperialism. Phrased as “reconstruction investment,” the deal lays the foundation for the extraction of vital minerals, oil and gas, and as Trump puts it himself, the “deal represents payback for the money the US has spent on the war so far.”

The so-called “100 Year Partnership” between the UK and Ukraine is another example. The “partnership,” following in the same imperialist extraction framework as with the US, ensures the advance of UK monopolies on Ukrainian land, especially in the extraction of hydrocarbons and critical minerals. In the same vein, Germany’s Rheinmetall, compounded by the recent “deals” made of mass-manufacturing drones in Ukraine, have entrenched themselves in the arms manufacture infrastructure in Ukraine through various deals. Similarly, France has several agreements ensuring their hand in the arms production of Ukraine.
This comes on top of various corruption scandals where, among other incidents, Zelensky was implicated in the infamous Pandora Papers leak, revealing the transfer of large sums of money from companies affiliated with Zelensky, to offshore companies in British Virgin Islands (BVI), Belize, and Cyprus – which also implicated the then- associates of Zelensky, head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ivan Bakanov, and First Assistant to the President Zelensky, Serhiy Shefir. Zelensky continues to fill his own pockets and those of the compradors and oligarchs in Ukraine, and sells out the Ukrainian people and its land, in favor of foreign imperialists and the Ukrainian bourgeoisie in the service of imperialists, instead of relying on the resistance of the people.
Conclusion
Despite the treason from the supposed “leadership” of the Ukrainian national resistance, represented by the comprador and lackey Zelensky, the Ukrainian people in resistance remain steadfast, holding the line against the onslaught of Russian imperialism. Despite the planned winter offensive of Russia – and the deals made with Yankee imperialism to increase its war coffers in an attempt at pressing its demands for territorial gain – the people of Ukraine will, and must, continue the defense of their land and freedom, and in laying its lives in service of this goal, the resistance of the Ukrainian people serve in a broadening front of wars of national liberation, and in deepening the crisis of the imperialist system. It is the task of the consequent anti-imperialist to increase the support of the Ukrainian People and do all we can to assist the comrades who struggle to give proletarian leadership to a National United Front in the midst of the War of Resistance.
Monday, 19 October 2026
I'D LOVE TO BE WRONG ABOUT THIS
Saturday, 17 October 2026
CORRUPTION IS BUSINESS AS USUAL
Friday, 16 October 2026
TRUTH IS TRUTH
Thursday, 15 October 2026
EBY IS A GREASY FUCKING WEASEL
In a short time, we have seen the premier abandon his party’s commitments to address the toxic drug crisis, climate action, affordable housing, access to justice — and now the human rights of the Indigenous Peoples of what is now known as British Columbia.
Premier Eby is selling British Columbians a tall tale about the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. He says that DRIPA poses “legal liabilities” for the B.C. government, but can’t say exactly how. He claims that the recent Gitxaala-Ehattesaht BC Court of Appeal decision has created an “existential threat” to the provincial government, forcing them to rewrite laws overnight, and plunging B.C. into chaos.
But when pressed for details, he can’t identify a single court case or petition that justifies the suspension or amendment of key sections of this first-of-its-kind Indigenous human rights legislation. The premier’s story neither reflects the reality of the court’s decision, what DRIPA actually does, nor the perspectives of First Nations who helped co-develop DRIPA.
The Gitxaala-Ehattesaht decision — like the many other similar court decisions involving Indigenous rights — requires the province to engage in good-faith discussions with Indigenous Peoples to effect change and resolve uncertainties. The court’s decision in Gitxaala-Ehattesaht did not order immediate sweeping legislative change, nor did it require all provincial laws to align with the UN Declaration overnight. Its findings focus on the current inconsistencies between B.C.’s mineral tenure regime and the human rights affirmed by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. These inconsistencies have led to infringement of First Nations’ rights.
Monday, 12 October 2026
CAN YOU TRUST THEM ?
Why Canada attacked Libya
By Yves Engler
Would Stephen Harper attack Libya simply to justify spending tens of billions of dollars on F-35 fighter jets? Perhaps. But, add on doing it for major Canadian investors, reinforcing his “principled” foreign policy rhetoric and reasserting western control over a region in flux, and you pretty much have the range of reasons why a half dozen CF-18s four other military aircraft and naval frigate are currently engaged in combat 10,000 km away from Canadian soil.
Over the past few months the Conservative’s plan to buy 65 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets has become a serious political headache. A recent poll showed 68 per cent of Canadians — including a majority of Conservative supporters — agreed that “now is not a good time” to spend between $16 and $29 billion on these controversial single-engine jets. So, sending Canadian military aircraft to enforce a UN “no-fly zone” in Libya provides an opportunity to soften opposition to the F-35 purchase, an issue bound to be a hot topic in the election campaign that formally began Saturday. Most critics of the F-35 purchase — from the NDP’s Michael Byers to Project Ploughshares Ernie Regehr to Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae — support the “humanitarian” mission in Libya. With these and other liberal interventionists supporting a bombing campaign in North Africa, Harper can more easily justify spending nearly $1,000 per Canadian on the best fighter jets money can buy. (Québec housing group, FRAPRU, claims the cost of a single F-35 equals 6,400 social housing units.)
Conveniently, the right-wing press has already begun to connect the dots in support of the Harper government. An Ottawa Citizen headline read, “Libya shows why Canada needs jets,” while a Sun Media chain commentary explained, “enforcing a ‘no-fly’ zone to shut down a dictator is an expeditionary air operation. Is that something Canadians want to be able to do in the future? If yes, you need an F-35, expensive or not.”
Over the past five years, the Conservatives have further militarized Canadian foreign policy. Military spending is at its highest level since World War II — the Harper government expanded Canada’s role in the occupation of Afghanistan, claimed that Russia is planning to attack and sent 2,000 troops to police Haitians after a devastating earthquake.
The Conservatives draw significant support from the military as well as its associated companies and culture. To get us in the fighting spirit, for instance, the Canadian Forces released onboard video footage of a CF-18 destroying a ground target in Libya.
But there is more to it than pleasing the Great White North’s version of the military-industrial complex. On March 21, The Financial Times reported that western oil companies were worried that if Gaddafi defeated the rebels in the east of Libya he would nationalize their operations out of anger at the west’s duplicity. Presumably, this includes Suncor, Canada’s second largest corporation, which signed a multi-billion dollar 30-year oil concession with Libya in 2008.
Home to the second largest amount of Canadian investment in Africa, instability in Libya has put a couple billion dollars worth of this country’s corporate investment in jeopardy. Dru Oja Jay, editor of the Dominion and a candidate for the Mountain Equipment Co-op Board of Directors, notes “Canadian investors are legitimately worried about what’s going to happen to the $1 billion signing bonus Suncor paid out to the Libyan government, or whether SNC-Lavalin is going to recoup its investments in the country, which is home to 10 per cent of its workforce.”And these are some of this country’s most powerful corporations. Embassymagazine includes both Suncor and SNC-Lavalin’s CEOs among the nine most influential business executives in determining Canadian foreign policy.
Unlike Egypt or Tunisia, the Conservatives denounced Gaddafi’s repression at the beginning of the Libyan uprising. This is partly because Gaddafi has never been on great terms with much of the West, even if there have been warmer relations in recent years. Also, the Conservatives were widely derided for supporting Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and (to a lesser extent) Ben-Ali in Tunisia to the bitter end. So Libya gave Harper an opportunity to re-affirm his “principled” foreign policy rhetoric.
Beyond wanting to appear on the side of human rights and democracy, another element motivating the military intervention in Libya is the desire to influence the revolutions in bordering states Tunisia and Egypt, which are still in flux. Controlling Libya gives the West another point of leverage over developments in those countries. Bombing Libya tells democratic forces in the region that the west is prepared to use force to assert itself (as does tacit support for the Saudi military intervention in Bahrain).
Recent developments in Libya are a reminder that if you give the western decision-makers an interventionist inch they take an imperial mile. In principle trying to stop Gaddafi from massacring people in eastern Libya is a good thing. But, the “no-fly zone” immediately became a license to bomb Libyan tanks, Gaddafi’s compound and other targets in coordination with rebel attacks. On March 22, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon claimed the UN resolution allowed for “boots on the ground.”
Beyond the inevitable death and destruction in Libya, the security council resolution further undermines state sovereignty, which provides the weakest states with some protection from the most powerful. This is the main reason why many Latin American and African countries have opposed the intervention.
Finally, let’s put the current moral outrage in perspective. A little over two years ago Israel launched a 22-day onslaught against Gaza that left some 1,400 people, mostly civilians, dead. There, the power imbalance between the two sides was much greater and the aggrieved population had been under the boot of the attacking force for as long as Gaddafi has ruled. Yet there was no talk of imposing a no-fly zone over Gaza. In fact, the Harper government cheered Israel on.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND OTHER LIES

“Section 83.01 of the Criminal Code defines terrorism as an act committed ‘in whole or in part for a political, religious or ideological purpose, objective or cause’ with the intention of intimidating the public’…with regard to its security, including its economic security, or compelling a person, a government or a domestic or an international organization to do or to refrain from doing any act.’ Activities recognized as criminal within this context include death and bodily harm with the use of violence; endangering a person’s life; risks posed to the health and safety of the public; significant property damage; and interference or disruption of essential services, facilities or systems.” – Department of Justice, Government of Canada1
The NATO attack on Libya in March 2011, which was led by Canada and destroyed the Libyan government, state and much of the country’s infrastructure arguably makes Canada a terrorist nation, according to its own Department of Justice’s definition of terrorism, provided above.: All of the conditions outlined by the Department of Justice apply to Canada’s attack on Libya. Canadian Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard was commander of NATO’s war on Libya, known as Operation Mobile, on which Canada spent $347 million under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. The Canadian ship HMCS Charlottetown carried 240 officers and sailors to Libya. Ten fighter jets, one helicopter and 200 Canadian Forces members were also sent to Libya. Canadian planes bombed Libya, its troops carried out psychological warfare operations and its special forces helped Libyan rebels on the ground. Members of Parliament from the Liberal Party, New Democratic Party and Bloc Québécois all voted to support Operation Mobile.
Canada’s CF-18 jets have dropped 696 bombs on Libya as part of the NATO attack which included 10,000 bombing sorties that killed and wounded more than 5,600 civilians (up until July 2011 alone) and destroyed vital civilian infrastructure, particularly water facilities, leaving four million Libyans (out of a population of six million) without potable water. NATO bombing demolished hospitals, universities, homes and the entire town of Sirte (population 100,000). These are clearly war crimes and crimes against humanity that Canada and NATO are responsible for. The NATO attack lasted seven months until October 2011, eradicating Libya’s central government, society and state and handing the country over to gangs of terrorists, criminals, Islamic fundamentalists and American operatives who started fighting with each other, pushing Libya into an abyss of violent anarchy that continues today, a decade later.
Libya went from being a prosperous country with Africa’s highest standard of living (54th on the U.N.’s Human Development Index in 2010, which totalled 174 countries) and a welfare state to becoming one of the poorest and most devastated nations in the world today, where slavery abounds and traffickers prey on millions of people trying to escape to Europe in boats that often sink. Scott Taylor tells me, “Lt. General Bouchard bears at least partial responsibility for the crimes committed by NATO in Libya.” Taylor, who calls the aftermath of NATO’s Libya war a “catastrophe,” is a Canadian journalist who specializes in military journalism and war reporting.
He is editor and publisher of Esprit de Corps magazine and a former infantry soldier in the Canadian Forces.
The NATO intervention derived from a series of lies spread mainly by the U.S. government about the intentions of Libya’s ruler, Muammar Gaddafi. U.S. President Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton, his Secretary of State, claimed that Gaddafi was going to commit “genocide” against a group of rebels who had taken up arms against him in the city of Benghazi and that he was already bombing protestors from the air. Both of these assertions were untrue. As Professor Alan J. Kuperman, who teaches global policy at the University of Texas, clarified in 2011, “Gaddafi did not ever threaten civilian massacre in Benghazi as Obama alleged.”
Obama’s bombing accusation against Gaddafi was refuted by his own Secretary of Defence, Robert Gates. To purportedly prevent Gaddafi from carrying out genocide and stop him from bombing Libyans, Clinton had the United Nations Security Council approve enforcement of a “no-fly zone” in Libya in the form of Resolution 1973. Obama and Clinton then used this very limited resolution to launch an all-out war on Libya which enormously exceeded the scope of a no-fly-zone.
You can’t wage a war against a tactic. Terrorism is the weapon of the weak and disenfranchised against the powerful. We [the U.S.] didn’t—and don’t now—care two hoots in hell about terrorism.” Conn Hallinan.
“You can’t wage a war against a tactic. Terrorism is the weapon of the weak and disenfranchised against the powerful. We [the U.S.] didn’t—and don’t now—care two hoots in hell about terrorism.” Conn Hallinan
As Taylor puts it, “The Canadian government willingly accepted the false narrative generated by France, the U.K. and the U.S. to justify armed intervention in Libya. The U.N. Resolution authorizing a no-fly zone enforced by NATO was ignored in the intended scope and used to mount airstrikes against Gaddafi loyalists.” Taylor adds in a September 2016 article: “That’s right folks, NATO dropped bombs on Libyans to prevent Gaddafi from dropping bombs on Libyans.”
Taylor points out that a British parliamentary committee “roundly condemned” U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s role in the Libya disaster in a 2016 report and asks “Where is the clamour in Canada for a similar investigation into our country’s role in that massive failure?…Cameron is not the only one responsible for the ongoing deaths and suffering in Libya. He has Canadian company in Harper and [John] Baird, [foreign affairs minister under Harper].”
Far from any censure, Harper awarded Bouchard the Order of Canada and gave him a military jet flyover in Ottawa. This is when even U.S. President Obama, whose bidding Canada was doing in Libya, called the NATO war, “a shit show” and blamed Britain and France for it although the attack would not have happened without Obama’s approval.
“There is simply no justification for the NATO attack on Libya” Conn Hallinan tells me. He has been a columnist with Foreign Policy in Focus, a project of the Washington D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies. Hallinan has written on foreign affairs for 50 years and retired in September. “It is a violation of international law to attack a country that does not pose a threat to other countries” he continues, “No one argued that Libya posed a threat to its neighbours or other nations, only that Gaddafi had threatened his people.

Photo by Karim Mostafa, 2012: Rebels at a Katiba compound in Benghazi get their training to maintain order in the country after the fall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
“The whole premise was a violation of international law and unfortunately, the U.N. was involved. Given that so many people are involved, it is unclear who one would prosecute, but one could start with Hilary Clinton, the person who pushed the war. Indeed, it was called ‘Hilary’s war’ in Washington. I would add the leadership of France and Italy, the former for starting the bombing, the latter for coordinating the bombing out of bases in Southern Italy.”
The real reason for the NATO invasion of Libya had to do with Western economic imperialism aimed at dominating Africa. Hallinan explains, “Libya was one of the last countries bordering the Mediterranean that was not a NATO member or a NATO ‘partner.’ Along with Syria, Libya has always been an independent actor in the region and many people in Washington and NATO have longed to end that status. I don’t think oil played a major role—but it is always a factor—but Washington has always been unhappy about Gaddafi’s effort to create an African investment bank and cooperative communications systems. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund want to control international finance and they have a particular interest in developing agriculture in Africa for the West. European and Middle Eastern countries have snapped up hundreds of square miles of prime agricultural land in Africa to start industrial farming to ensure their food supplies in a time of climate change. Gaddafi always got in the way of those organizations. The uprising [in Benghazi] was the excuse they were looking for.”
Taylor explains the Canadian part in this economic imperialism, Ottawa being a “junior” imperialist dominated by the U.S. Canadian foreign policy aims usually dovetail with those of the U.S. and U.K.: “I think you need to look no further than the SNC Lavalin scandal to realize that Canada has long had interest in developing Libyan oil and gas resources. Canada, like the other G8 countries, realized the looming threat of Gaddafi amassing gold reserves to create an African Union currency. This would have challenged the existing global banking system. With those gold reserves now outside Libya and the country awash in anarchy, that threat has been neutralized.”
The Canadian/NATO attack on Libya spread terrorism within and outside the country to Syria and several African states— especially Mali, where France had to send troops once more to prevent the military dictatorship’s fall to Islamic fundamentalists armed with weapons from Gaddafi’s looted arsenal and from NATO’s own extensive distribution of weaponry to Gaddafi’s opponents. “The NATO-backed rebellion saw the emergence of such extremist Islamic groups as the al Nusra Front and subsequently the anarchy opened the door to both al Qaeda and then Daesh (a.k.a. ISIS or ISIL) to get footholds in Libya,” emphasizes Taylor.
“The result of the invasion and overthrow has been a disaster,” concurs Hallinan. “The massive weapon caches of Gaddafi fuel insurgents and terrorists throughout Africa. And as [veteran journalist] Seymour Hersh showed, Libya was the key to the ‘rat line’ of arms going to Syria. The U.S., British, French and Israelis were using Gaddafi’s weapons to arm Islamic fundamentalists in Syria to wage war on the Bashar Al-Assad government. That, in turn, generated millions of refugees who are currently freezing to death on the Polish border. And insurgents in the trans-Sahel [an area comprising nine African countries] are using those weapons to overthrow governments or ignite civil wars. But then again, we [the U.S.government] knew that would happen. It is easier to rule during times of chaos than times of calm.”
Hallinan rejects the credibility of the “war on terror” entirely considering it “nothing but an excuse to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. You can’t wage a war against a tactic. Terrorism is the weapon of the weak and disenfranchised against the powerful. We [the U.S.] didn’t—and don’t now—care two hoots in hell about terrorism.” That certainly applies to Canada and NATO as well. As far the Western alliance goes, terrorism is an excuse to be a terrorist.
Can
Sunday, 11 October 2026
GIVING THANKS
Saturday, 10 October 2026
HELLO ?
Friday, 9 October 2026
SYMPATHY
Thursday, 8 October 2026
WHO ARE THE REAL CRIMINALS ?
Israel Invaded Syria 453 Times, Killed 69 People since 2024 – Report

Israeli forces carried out 453 incursions into Syria, killed 69 people and left 35 detainees unaccounted for, a rights group reported.
Key Developments
- The Syrian Network for Human Rights documented at least 453 Israeli ground incursions and 69 killings between December 2024 and October 2026.
- Israeli forces detained at least 162 people, releasing 127, while the fate of another 35 remains unknown to their families.
- The report also documented home demolitions, land-leveling operations and hundreds of Israeli airstrikes across several Syrian provinces.
Israeli forces carried out at least 453 ground incursions into Syrian territory and killed at least 69 people between December 8, 2024, and October 6, 2026, according to a human rights report.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights documented the incursions and other Israeli violations following the fall of Syria’s former government, Syrian broadcaster Al-Ekhbariya reported on Thursday.
The incursions were concentrated in the southern Syrian provinces of Quneitra and Daraa, with additional operations recorded in the Damascus countryside.
The report also documented arbitrary detentions, civilian home demolitions, land-leveling operations and extensive Israeli airstrikes across Syria.
Detentions and Killings
The Syrian Network for Human Rights recorded at least 162 cases of arbitrary detention by Israeli forces.
Of those detained, 127 were subsequently released.
The fate of the remaining 35 detainees remains unknown to both the organization and their families.
The report did not provide complete details concerning the identities or circumstances surrounding the deaths of the 69 people killed during the reporting period.
Israeli incursions have repeatedly involved raids on villages, temporary checkpoints, searches of civilian homes and the detention of residents in southern Syria.
The operations have taken place amid an expanded Israeli military presence inside Syrian territory beyond the occupied Golan Heights.
Homes Demolished, Land Leveled
The rights organization documented the demolition of at least 15 civilian homes after Israeli forces entered the village of Hamidiya in the Quneitra countryside.
It also recorded extensive land-leveling operations inside the Jabata al-Khashab Nature Reserve in northern Quneitra on October 17 and 18, 2025.
In late January, Israeli forces sprayed grazing land in Quneitra with an unidentified substance, according to the report.
The network said it was unable to determine the nature of the substance or its potential effects on the land, livestock and local communities.
Israeli forces resumed land-leveling operations on October 4 west of Al-Asha village and Al-Rafid town.
Such operations have intensified concerns that Israel is attempting to consolidate a long-term military presence and alter conditions on the ground in southern Syria.
Hundreds of Airstrikes
Beyond the ground incursions, the network documented hundreds of Israeli airstrikes across Syria.
The attacks targeted Damascus, the Damascus countryside, Hama, Latakia, Homs, Tartus, Sweida and Idlib.
The organization did not provide an exact number of airstrikes in its public data.
Israel has repeatedly bombed Syrian military facilities, airports, infrastructure and other sites while expanding its ground occupation in the south.
Its forces have maintained positions inside the UN-monitored buffer zone and surrounding areas since December 2024.
Violation of 1974 Agreement
On December 13, 2024, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force said Israeli forces had entered the buffer zone and remained at several positions there.
UNDOF said the Israeli movements constituted a violation of the 1974 disengagement agreement between Syria and Israel.
A UN report issued in September 2025 also documented Israel’s continuing military presence in the buffer zone and neighboring positions.
The report pointed to Israeli measures aimed at consolidating its presence in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and in additional Syrian territory entered after December 2024.
The 1974 agreement established a separation zone monitored by the United Nations following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.
Damascus has repeatedly demanded that Israeli forces withdraw from Syrian territory and comply with the agreement.








