{"id":244435,"date":"2026-08-11T07:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/244435\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:36:10","slug":"idf-locates-three-israelis-who-crossed-border-into-syria-transfers-them-to-police-for-questioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/244435\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF locates three Israelis who crossed border into Syria, transfers them to police for questioning"},"content":{"rendered":"

The military condemned the civilians’ behavior, explaining that such incidents disturb IDF activity in the area.<\/p>\n

Three Israeli civilians who crossed into Syria from the Mount Hermon area overnight were returned to Israel by the IDF<\/a>, the military announced in a Tuesday morning statement.<\/p>\n

It noted that upon return, all three were transferred to Israel Police for questioning.<\/p>\n

The military condemned the civilians’ behavior, explaining that such incidents not only disturb IDF activity in the area, but are also considered to be criminal offenses.<\/p>\n

The incident follows a rising trend of Israeli civilians and activists breaching the Israel-Syria border over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

In late July, the IDF detained two Israelis who had crossed the border,<\/a> while Syrian media separately reported that troops had arrested a Syrian citizen during an overnight raid in the Quneitra area.<\/p>\n

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View of the Israeli border area with Syria, as seen from the northern Golan Heights, April 11, 2026. (credit: MICHAEL GILADI\/FLASH90)<\/p>\n

According to the military, troops dispatched to Mount Hermon located the two, returned them to Israeli territory, and transferred them to police.<\/p>\n

IDF detains three settler activists who breached Syrian border<\/p>\n

Two days later, theIDF said it had detained three Israeli settler activists<\/a> from the “HaBashan Pioneers” settler movement after they breached the Syrian border in the Mount Hermon area.<\/p>\n

However, an earlier report from Army Radio said the activists were only in Syrian<\/a> 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

Sarah Ben-Nun and Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The military condemned the civilians’ behavior, explaining that such incidents disturb IDF activity in the area. Three Israeli…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[423,37,5869,18965,28817,17526,68094,95,28819],"class_list":["post-244435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-israel-syria","tag-israeli-civilians","tag-mount-hermon","tag-northern-golan-heights","tag-syria","tag-syrian-border"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117075731294840139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244435","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=244435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}