Israeli media citing the Israeli military reported that in late September, “Israeli soldiers destroyed two Syrian military posts in the demilitarised zone… in a warning to Syrian President Bashar Assad, whose forces are encroaching on the Golan Heights”. An Israeli commander noted that “we are familiar with the cooperation between the Syrian army and Hizbollah, and any military entrenchment by the [Syrian army] has the potential to be a dual entrenchment…We won’t allow the south of Syria to become the south of Lebanon”.