US EditionApproximately 40 Israelis attempted to sneak over border into Syria, IDF confirms
Some detainees were handed to police after the army said the breach endangered civilians and soldiers.
- About 40 civilians from Israel crossed into Syria from the Golan Heights before being stopped.
- The Israel Defense Forces returned them to Israel and handed them over for questioning.
- Authorities warned that crossing into Syria or Lebanon is illegal and punishable by prison time.
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Halutzei HaBashan Enter Buffer Zone in Southern Syria Once Again
Israeli media reported on Wednesday that a group of settlers affiliated with the Halutzei HaBashan (Pioneers of Bashan) movement entered the town of Ain al-Tina, located opposite Majdal Shams within the buffer zone adjacent to the disengagement line in the Quneitra countryside. According to the Israeli Broadcasting Authority, members of the group climbed onto the roof of a local home, an act widely interpreted as a symbolic gesture reflecting th…
The Mount Hermon area in southern Syria witnessed a new security breach on Wednesday, after dozens of extremist settlers infiltrated deep into Syrian territory and seized a building in the village of Hader, before the Israeli occupation army intervened to return them later.
Over 40 Israelis illegally crossed Syrian border, IDF returned them to Israel
The members said that 'settling the Bashan will bring security to the Golan and to all of Israel.' This isn't the first time in recent months that far-right activists have tried building an outpost in the Syrian Golan Heights
The aim of the Israeli settlers is not only to stop at the West Bank and Lebanon. The last demonstration is the invasion of about 40 settlers, belonging to the group "Pionieri di Bashan" which promotes the creation of Israeli settlements in southern Syria, which Wednesday crossed the border in an act that for the moment has turned out to be only a demonstration but that cost them the arrest by the Israeli army. The group of protesters first gath…
Dozens of Israeli settler activists crossed the border into Syrian territory, from where they were turned back by the army, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday.
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