France24 Just Accidentally Reported on an Israeli Invasion
France 24 dutifully reports that Israel conducted an 'operation' in southern Syria, killing multiple Syrians and wounding six IDF soldiers. What the report conveniently glosses over, however, is that this 'operation' is, by definition, an invasion of another sovereign nation's territory—Syria—a fact conspicuously absent from the anodyne framing. One might easily forget that the Syrian Golan
Heights, from which Israel routinely launches such 'operations,' was seized by Israel from Syria in 1967 and illegally annexed in 1981, a move condemned by UN Resolution 497 . So, when France 24 talks about Israel's 'security concerns,' one might wonder why Syria's security concerns—namely, being regularly bombed by a foreign military in their own country—don't merit the same level of media
curiosity. It appears international law is merely a suggestion when it comes to certain actors.