A handful of Jewish resettlement activists were arrested after crossing into Syrian territory on Sunday night, the Israel Defense Forces said.<\/p>\n
IDF soldiers stationed in the border region returned the group to Israeli territory and detained 10 of them, according to a statement.<\/p>\n
“The apprehended civilians have been transferred to the Israel Police,” the military stated. “The IDF strongly condemns this incident and emphasizes its severity, which constitutes a criminal offense that endangers civilians and IDF soldiers.”<\/p>\n
Srugim, a news website catering to the religious Zionist community, reported that activists from the Bashan Pioneers group entered Syria to mark the Hebrew-calendar anniversary of the liberation of the Golan Heights in the 1967 Six-Day War.<\/p>\n
The incursion was said to be the fourth within 24 hours and the 14th since the organization was founded.<\/p>\n
“Will not give up and will not stop until the ‘right-wing government’ allows families who are interested to enter and settle in the Bashan in an orderly and legal manner,” Bashan Pioneers said in a statement, using the biblical name for the territory.<\/p>\n
“With elections approaching, no one knows what tomorrow may bring,” it added. “The government must not allow the achievements of the war to evaporate.”<\/p>\n
Some Religious Zionist activists seek a return to parts of Lebanon and Syria that were part of the ancient Land of Israel.<\/p>\n
Israeli civilians are banned by law from entering designated enemy states such as Syria and Lebanon without authorization, with violations punishable by up to four years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A handful of Jewish resettlement activists were arrested after crossing into Syrian territory on Sunday night, the Israel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[1660,996,1655,1665,669,1658,37,1663,184,1653,10796,1659,1650,49,1652,498,13087,1654,9572,10801,1671,13146,1657,1667,20685,15959,10804,95,36,6393],"class_list":["post-120271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-arab-israeli-conflict","tag-conflicts","tag-foreign-relations-of-israel","tag-gaza-israel-conflict","tag-golan-heights","tag-government-of-israel","tag-israel","tag-israel-defense-forces","tag-israel-news","tag-israel-related-controversies","tag-israel-palestine-relations","tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","tag-judaism-and-warfare","tag-middle-east","tag-military-of-israel","tag-palestine","tag-palestine-region","tag-politics-of-israel","tag-politics-of-palestine","tag-politics-of-palestine-region","tag-politics-of-the-arab-world","tag-politics-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict","tag-politics-of-the-middle-east","tag-religion-based-wars","tag-six-day-war","tag-society-of-israel","tag-society-of-palestine","tag-syria","tag-war","tag-zionism"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}