Tag Archive for Israel Syria

| May 24, 2017
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Israelis send medicines & emergency medical supplies to Syrian children

 

Just Beyond Our Border’s members came together on social media, people from all over Israel, including religious settlers from the West Bank, and they just raised over NIS 2 million in crowd funding campaigns to buy medical supplies for children suffering in Syria’s civil war.

By Assaf Kamar

 

There is excitement in the air as members of the Just Beyond Our Border group box hundreds of different types of medicine and medical equipment for children affected by the civil war in Syria.

One of the activists, Yotvat Fireaizen Weil, is putting stickers with the group’s logo on the boxes, their name appearing in Hebrew, English and Arabic. Continue Reading »

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| April 22, 2017
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IDF retaliates, hitting Syrian targets after 3 mortars land in Israel’s Golan Heights

 

IDF unit opened fire on a position where 3 mortars were fire on Friday afternoon that landed & exploded in the Golan Heights. –  No physical injuries or damage were reported.

By i24NEWS

 

The Israeli military said on Friday that it had hit targets in Syria in response to three projectiles that landed in the Israeli Golan Heights earlier, in what the army said was likely stray fire from Syria’s civil war. There were no injuries or damage.

A mortar landed in an open area in the northern area of Israel, followed about an hour later by two additional projectiles, which triggered rocket alert sirens. Continue Reading »

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| February 14, 2017
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Israelis launch undercover mission into Syria: Supplying winter coats to suffering civilians

 

Israeli Jewish, Druze, & Arab youth groups and aid organizations are covertly sending truck loads of winter supplies to anguishing Syrian civilians.

Israel Today Staff

 

The harsh winter has been made all the more unbearable for millions of Syrians as a devastating civil war enters its seventh year.

Across the border, Israel is doing all it can without getting too mired in a neighboring state that still officially considers the Jewish state its sworn enemy.

Bags of donated winter gear to be sent to Syrian refugees from Israeli citizens Photo- Youth Federation for Working and Studying

Enemies or not, a growing number of Israelis are determined to engage in private aid missions to augment the medical care being provided by the government and the Israeli army to those Syrians who can reach the border. Continue Reading »

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| January 28, 2017
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WATCH VIDEO REPORT: Israel plans to assimilate 100 Syrian orphans

Israel reports plans to absorb 100 Syrian orphans from the war-torn country and place then in Ministry of Education dormitories, before they get assimilated into families. 

By I24news

 

 

View original i24news publication at:
http://www.i24news.tv/en/tv/replay/news/x59poyg Continue Reading »

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| January 17, 2017
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Thankful Syrian mother names Israel-born daughter, Sarah

 

Knowing the hospitals & clinics near her village have all been destroyed, a 29 yr-old pregnant Syrian woman makes way to the Israeli border where IDF soldiers transfer her to an Israeli hospital.
• “I’ll never forget what you did here,” she said.

By Danny Brenner

 

A 29-year-old Syrian woman gave birth to a healthy girl last weekend in Ziv Medical Center in Safed, and in gratitude to the State of Israel, named the baby Sarah.

The woman came from a village around which every hospital and clinic had been destroyed in the long civil war. Nearing the end of her pregnancy, she made the dangerous trek to the Israeli border, and was brought to the hospital by the Israel Defense Forces, where she gave birth by caesarian section. Continue Reading »

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| January 15, 2017
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Israelis donate winter cloths & blankets to Syrian refugees

 

Numerous Israeli youth movements opened 15 collection centers around the country where Israelis can donate winter clothes. The centers, that began their second winter clothes drive this season to assist Syrian refugees struggling to survive the winter, are in Druze, Arab, and Jewish communities.

By Reut Rimmerman

 

The crisis in Syria hasn’t been ignored by Israel. Various Israeli youth movements, including the Youth Federation for Working and Studying, The Dror Movement, and the committed for the fight against genocide are leading a wide scale operation to collect winter clothes for Syrian refugees.

Israeli youth movements collecting winter clothes for Syrian refugees – Photo: Youth Federation for Working and Studying

The operation, codenamed “Human Warmth,” has opened up 15 collection centers around the country where Israelis can go and donate winter clothes. Continue Reading »

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| November 27, 2016
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Israel Air Force engage ISIS forces in Syria, killing 4, destroying terrorist’s vehicle and ordnance

 

Prior to the IAF’s engagement, Israeli ground forces in the southern Golan Heights return fire after receiving shots and mortar shell emanating from ISIS-linked cell operating in Syria.

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

 

The Israeli Air Force struck and killed a cell of terrorists affiliated with the Islamic State group in Syria after shots were fired across the border at military forces in the Golan Heights on Sunday morning, according to an IDF statement.

In the first clashes between the IDF and an IS-linked group, the Israeli air force allegedly struck four operatives from the ISIS-linked Khalid ibn al-Walid Army (formerly known as Yarmouk Martyrs’ Brigade) who had initially opened fire at IDF forces in the southern Golan Heights at around 8:30am, east of the community of Avnei Eitan. Continue Reading »

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| October 17, 2016
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Aliyah: The incredible journey of being smuggled out of Damascus

 

The intelligence gathered by these two immigrants from Syria, who were smuggled into Israel in 1985, is unknown to the Israeli public, but the IDF sees these two brothers, now in their 40s, and the eldest’s son as well, as an invaluable strategic asset to the Jewish State.

By Yair Altman

 

“Today, when I look back, I have no regrets,” says Chief Warrant Officer A., 46, who serves in the Israel Defense Forces’ elite 8200 intelligence unit with his brother, Warrant Officer M., 42, and his son.

NCOs A. and M., with A.’s son (center.) – Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon

“People who hear for the first time that we all serve in the same place is surprised, but for us, it’s the most natural thing to do.

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| September 5, 2016
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IDF retaliates: Israel Air Force strikes Syrian source of mortars fired on Israel

 

—– SECURITY UPDATE —–

Once again fighting between the sides in Syria has spilled over into Israel with a mortar shell exploding in the Golan Heights, requiring an IDF response by attacking Syrian artillery targets.

By Ahiya Raved

 

Following the “spillover firing” of a mortar from Syrian that landed in the Golan Heights, the IDF attacked on Sunday night Syrian army artillery. The shell fired into Israel was part of intra-national Syrian fighting, and it landed in an open area, not causing any injuries or damage.

The IDF responded by attacking artillery belonging to Syrian regime in the northern Syrian Golan Heights. Continue Reading »

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| August 22, 2016
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Israel strikes Syrian Army target after firing mortar shell at Israeli Golan Heights

 

When the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011, the Golan Heights became tense with a growing number of rockets & mortar rounds, mostly stray, hitting the Israeli side, prompting the IDF to respond.

By i24news

 

The Israeli Defense Forces on Monday carried out a strike in the Syrian Golan Heights in retaliation to mortar fire that landed on the Israeli side of the border, the IDF said in a statement.

A picture taken in January shows the Nimrod Fortress in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights – Photo: JALAA MAREY/AFP

Earlier in the day a mortar shell landed in an open area near the security fence in the central Golan Heights. Continue Reading »

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| July 4, 2016
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IDF: Israeli forces attacked two Syrian army targets after being fired on

 

Rocket fire at Israel’s security fence on its northern border prompted a strong reaction from IDF against 2 Syrian army targets: ‘We are not involved in the fighting in Syria but will defend ourselves against any unusual incidents.’

By Yoav Zitun

 

In an unusual move, the IDF announced on Monday morning that it attacked two Syrian army targets overnight Sunday in retaliation for unusual shots fired at the security fence on the northern border.

IAF airstrike in Syria

On Sunday morning, security forces identified a rocket which had fallen in open territory on the Israeli side of the fence but had not caused any damage or injuries.
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| June 18, 2016
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Israeli Produced Food Aiding More Syrians to the Ire of Many

 

Not all Syrians are happy with the aid from the ‘Zionist Entity’ that’s been more evident of late, especially the food that’s been reaching families of Syrian rebels fighting in the southern Qunietra region on Israel’s Golan Heights border.

By Roi Kais

 

Israeli produced food is showing up on the frontlines in Syria, and has been causing a firestorm in Arabic media and social media.

The food has been showing up in Qunietra province which is on the border with the Israeli Golan Heights, specifically in areas controlled by rebel groups. While many of the rebel groups seem to be happy with this aid, there are others who are not too pleased with it, saying “it is a disgrace to be receiving food from the Zionist Entity which has stolen the Golan.” Continue Reading »

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| May 15, 2016
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Former Syrian brigadier general looking for peace with Israel

 

Former Syrian brigadier general, Nabil al-Dandel, sends Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein a letter suggesting Israel open a dialogue with the Syrian people & support the opposition in its fight against Assad’s regime.

By Roi Kais

 

“I announce my defection from the criminal regime of Bashar al-Assad,” declared Brigadier General Nabil al-Dandal and a number of other defecting officers after the brutal crackdown on the Syrian uprising in March 2011.

Former Syrian General Nabil al-Dandel

Al-Dandal sent an open letter to the Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein this week, calling on Israelis to open a dialogue to make peace with the Syrian people. Continue Reading »

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| March 23, 2016
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UNDOF soldiers returning to the Syrian border with Israel

 

A year and a half after UN peacekeepers left Syrian territory, the United Nations intends to return its UNDOF force, which is composed of soldiers from 5 countries, to the posts they were stationed between 1974-2014.

By Alex Fishman

 

A year and a half after the hasty departure of UN troops from the Syrian Golan Heights, the UN force supervising the separation of forces is prepared to disperse its forces on the Syrian side of the border.

Former UNDOF commander Iqbal Singh with IDF commanders – Photo: Yoav Zitun

In recent weeks, officers and soldiers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) made several visits to facilities and vantage points they manned from September 2014 in the Syrian Golan Heights. Continue Reading »

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| December 26, 2015
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REPORT: European Diplomats urge Hezbollah to reconsider attacking Israel in revenge for Kuntar

 

The report alleges European officials warned Lebanon’s Shiite Islamic group of Israel’s intent to respond heavily on Hezbollah, in Lebanon & in Syria, if attacked.

By i24news

 

According to the report, a European official said that foreign officials had warned Hezbollah that Israel appeared prepared to deal heavy blows to the group in both Lebanon and Syria if the Jewish state was to come under attack.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Monday declared that there was “no doubt” that Israel was behind the strike that killed Kuntar and accused Israel of firing guided missiles at the building in which the top commander lived, also killing eight additional people. Continue Reading »

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