Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a security briefing atop Mount Hermon in the UN-patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights that Israel seized this month. Netanyahu reviewed the army's deployment in the area and set guidelines for the future. The Israeli move to seize the buffer zone has been criticized by UN chief Antonio Guterres as a violation of the 1974 armistice. Israel has framed the move as temporary and defensive, citing the need to respond to a 'vacuum on Israel's border and in the buffer zone'.