A group of approximately 35 right-wing activists from the ”Bashan Pioneers” movement on Wednesday afternoon crossed into Syria from the Golan Heights and barricaded themselves on the roof of a building in the village of Khader, at the foot of Mount Hermon.<\/p>\n
This is not the first time the group has crossed the border into Syria.<\/p>\n
The IDF stated that dozens of activists crossed the border, entered approximately 500 meters into Syrian territory, were removed, and transferred to police custody.<\/p>\n
The Bashan Pioneers movement said in response: “If, for example, we had settled in Lebanon during the time of [former Prime Ministers Menachem] Begin and [Yitzhak] Shamir, [Ehud] Barak would not have been able to chase the IDF out so easily, and we would not now be shedding our soldiers\u2019 blood there again.”<\/p>\n
“The right-wing government must use the time it has left to establish facts on the ground.”<\/p>\n
The IDF responded: “A short while ago, approximately 40 Israeli civilians gathered near the Israel-Syria border. After a few minutes, the civilians crossed the border and continued several hundred meters into Syria.”<\/p>\n
“IDF soldiers operating at the location returned the civilians to Israeli territory and apprehended them at the scene.<\/p>\n
“The apprehended civilians have been transferred to the Israel Police.<\/p>\n
“The IDF strongly condemns this incident and emphasizes its severity, which constitutes a criminal offense that endangers civilians and IDF troops.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of approximately 35 right-wing activists from the ”Bashan Pioneers” movement on Wednesday afternoon crossed into Syria…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[423,6254,1430,95],"class_list":{"0":"post-78126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-idf","9":"tag-northern-arrows","10":"tag-roaring-lion","11":"tag-syria"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116448370878114427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78126","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=78126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}