Qatar, Iraq and Saudi Arabia have condemned Israel’s land grab in Syria near the occupied Golan Heights, as the Israeli military continues to launch airstrikes across the country.

The Qatari Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Doha viewed the Israeli invasion as “a dangerous development and a blatant attack on the sovereignty and unity of Syria, as well as a blatant violation of international law.”

“The Israeli occupation’s policy of imposing a fait accompli, including its attempts to occupy Syrian territories, will lead to further violence and tension in the region,” it said.

Israel began attacking Syria after the country’s armed opposition toppled former President Bashar al-Assad’s government early Sunday.

Saudi Arabia on Monday criticized Israel’s moves, saying they confirmed “Israel’s continued violation of the rules of international law and its determination to sabotage Syria’s chances of restoring its security, stability and territorial integrity.”

The kingdom’s Foreign Ministry also called on the international community to denounce the Israeli campaign, stressing that the Golan Heights is occupied Arab territory.

Baghdad reiterated the criticism, saying Israel had committed a “grave violation of international law.”

Iraq “stresses the importance of preserving the sovereignty and integrity of Syria and calls on the UN Security Council to assume its responsibility and condemn this aggression … and put an end to it,” the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

On Sunday, Israel advanced rapidly and captured the buffer zone that separates the occupied Golan Heights from Syria-controlled areas. The Israeli military also warned Syrians living in five villages near the strategic area to “stay at home.”

Israel occupied most of the Golan Heights in 1967 and illegally annexed the area in 1981.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered Israeli forces to take the buffer zone established as part of a 1974 ceasefire with Syria shortly after al-Assad was toppled.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, Netanyahu said the occupied Golan Heights would remain with Israel “for eternity.”

He also thanked US President-elect Donald Trump for recognizing Israel’s claimed sovereignty over the territory during his first term. International law strictly prohibits the acquisition of land by force.

According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Netanyahu said the overthrow of al-Assad was “a direct result of the strong blows we dealt to Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.”

Israel’s latest land grab was also sharply criticized by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who said the move represented “a violation” of the 1974 disengagement agreement between Israel and Syria.

The U.N. peacekeeping force stationed in the Golan Heights, known as UNDOF, “informed Israeli partners that these actions would constitute a violation of the 1974 disengagement agreement,” Dujarric said. He added that the Israeli forces that entered the zone were still present in three locations.

“More than 100 strikes”

Meanwhile, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations told the Security Council that the deployment of soldiers in the region was “limited and temporary.”

“I have addressed the Security Council and made clear that we have taken limited and temporary measures in response to the evolving security threat on the Syria-Israel border and the danger it poses to our citizens,” Ambassador Danny Danon wrote X

In addition to land attacks, Israeli forces have been bombing targets across Syria since al-Assad was toppled on Sunday.

The Reuters news agency quoted Syrian security forces as saying that Israel bombed three air bases in Syria – locations near Damascus, Homs and Qamishli – on Monday.

Reuters reported that Israel also carried out attacks on military facilities in the coastal city of Latakia.

The Israeli military typically does not accept responsibility for attacks in Syria.

A day earlier, Israel carried out three air strikes against a security complex and a state research center in Damascus, according to two security sources.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said Israel carried out more than 100 airstrikes on military sites across the country on Monday.

Rami Abdel Rahman, the monitor’s director, said the increasing Israeli attacks were aimed at “destroying the military capabilities of the former regime.”