The UN has sent reinforcement troops to the Golan Heights buffer zone in Syria after it was seized by Israeli troops earlier this week, according to a report. UN peacekeepers had “reinforced a couple of their positions” over the past 24 hours, a UN diplomat told Newsweek.

Israel denied on Tuesday it had advanced into Syria beyond a buffer zone with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights since the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by rebel forces.

Paris calls military deployment in buffer zone “a violation of the 1974 disengagement agreement” between Damascus and Tel Aviv.