The United Nations has reported significant breaches of a 50-year-old ceasefire agreement due to Israeli construction along the demilitarized buffer zone with Syria, increasing tensions in the Golan Heights. Recent satellite imagery shows new trenches and earthworks being dug, some encroaching into the Area of Separation (AoS). Although Israeli officials claim these defenses are necessary against Iranian-backed infiltration, the UN is concerned about the potential for escalating conflict. Syrian authorities have protested the activities, which complicate an already delicate security situation in the region.