{"id":228066,"date":"2026-07-29T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/228066\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:15:10","slug":"idf-detains-three-settler-activists-who-breached-syrian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/228066\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF detains three settler activists who breached Syrian border"},"content":{"rendered":"

HaBashan Pioneers also attempted to breach the Syrian border on July 22, with the IDF detaining the activists prior to successfully reaching the Syrian Hermon.<\/p>\n

The IDF detained three Israeli activists from the “HaBashan Pioneers” settler movement after they breached the Syrian border in the Mount Hermon<\/a> area on Tuesday, the military announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

However, an earlier report from Army Radio said the activists were only in Syrian territory for several hours on Wednesday morning before being located by the IDF.<\/p>\n

The activists were returned to Israeli territory and handed over to police, the IDF said, noting that the military “strongly condemns” such incidents as they disrupt operations and create a dangerous situation for all involved.<\/p>\n

The IDF emphasized that police are required to pursue justice for the activists’ “criminal offense” in order to disincentivize further similar actions.<\/p>\n

The incident marks the fourth recent attempt (successful or unsuccessful) for the settler activist group to cross into Syria.<\/p>\n

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Israeli soldiers seen in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, on February 8, 2024; Illustrative. (credit: MICHAEL GILADI\/FLASH90)<\/p>\n

The HaBashan Pioneers have been trying to establish Jewish settlements in Syria<\/a>, with several arrested in recent weeks for multiple separate border crossing attempts.<\/p>\n

A recent unsuccessful border breach, following a reported drone targeting<\/p>\n

Most recently, HaBashan Pioneers<\/a> activists attempted to breach the Syrian border on July 22, with the IDF detaining the activists prior to successfully reaching the Syrian Hermon.<\/p>\n

On July 21, five HaBashan Pioneers members were targeted by IDF Elbit Hermes 450 “Zik” drones<\/a> in the Israel-Syria border area before being identified as Israelis, according to a KAN News report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HaBashan Pioneers also attempted to breach the Syrian border on July 22, with the IDF detaining the activists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[32153,423,95,28819,6450],"class_list":["post-228066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-activists","tag-idf","tag-syria","tag-syrian-border","tag-syrian-territory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117004397888692267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228066","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=228066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}