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| December 22, 2014
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Syria Claims to Have Downed ‘Unmanned Aircraft of the Zionist Regime’

 

 

 

Hezbollah media reports that Syria shot down an Israeli drone over the Syrian Golan Heights.

IDF reaction: We don’t respond to foreign reports.

By Ben Ariel

 

Arab media reported on Sunday night that Syria had downed an Israeli drone in the Golan Heights.

Unmanned drone (illustration) – Reuters

According to the report, which appeared on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television and on official Syrian TV, an “unmanned aircraft of the Zionist regime was downed over the skies of Quneitra, close to the border.”

In response, the IDF said, according to Channel 2 News, that “the IDF does not respond to foreign reports.”

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| September 23, 2014
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Israel downs a Syrian aircraft over Golan Heights

 

 —–SPECIAL SECURITY REPORT —–

Syrian unrest spills over the border with the violation of a Syrian aircraft into Israeli airspace; warplane downed with IAF Patriot missile.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

The IDF on Tuesday shot down a Syrian warplane that invaded Israeli airspace over the Golan Heights.

2 Syrian pilots seen after #Israel downed their aircraft earlier near Kanaker – Twitter

A Syrian fighter jet belonging to the Assad regime was detected over Quneitra near the Israeli border, before it crossed into Israeli air space on Tuesday morning.  The IAF fired a Patriot surface-to-air missile at the warplane, striking it down. Continue Reading »

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| September 14, 2014
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Israeli Hospital Determined to Restore Syrian Child’s Sight

 

The 12 yr-old boy is but one Syrian civil war victims of ten patients currently being treated at the Israeli hospital. He lost his sight from regime shelling. Another victim says, ‘We were taught that Israel is the enemy.’

By Reuters

 

Israeli medics were checking last week a 12-year-old Syrian boy who was brought to Ziv Medical Center in Tzfat (Safed), northern Israel.

An injured Syrian girl being treated at Israel’s Ziv Medical Center – Reuters

The hospital said that the boy was severely wounded, losing the sight in both eyes and suffering injuries to his arm and leg, when a shell exploded near his home in the outskirts of Damascus. Continue Reading »

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| September 4, 2014
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IDF pounds Syrian army position after its shell explodes in Israel’s Golan

Rocket fired in conflict between Assad forces & rebels on Syrian side of Golan Heights explodes inside Israel.

IDF says it sees the Syrian army as responsible for any rocket fire towards Israel.

By Ahiya Raved, Yoav Zitun, Itay Blumental, & Roi Kais

 

The IDF fired a Spike (Tamuz) missile at a Syrian army position on Thursday in response to a stray projectile fired from the neighboring country that hit the Israeli Golan Heights earlier in the day. A direct hit was confirmed.

The fighting in Quneitra as seen from the Israeli side (Photo: AFP)

The fighting in Quneitra as seen from the Israeli side – Photo: AFP

A rocket siren was sounded Thursday afternoon in the northern Golan Heights. Continue Reading »

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| August 29, 2014
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Al-Qaeda militants battle for the Syrian Golan Heights

Syrian Army calls in its air force strikes & reinforcements against rebel Islamists and al-Nusra Front militants and who captured 124 UN soldiers.

By Roi Kais and Ahiya Raved

 

 

Sounds of heavy fighting continued Friday afternoon on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights where Bashar Assad’s army continued in efforts to dislodge the al-Qaeda affiliated militants who recently captured areas surrounding the Quneitra border crossing with Israel.

UN troops at an observation post along the Israel-Syria border. (Photo: EPA)

UN troops at an observation post along the Israel-Syria border. – Photo: EPA

Despite a steady flow of reinforcements to the area alongside increased strikes from the Syrian Air Force, soldiers had yet to see success in their counter-offensive and the flag of al-Qaeda continued flying from the tops of buildings along the border. Continue Reading »

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| March 29, 2014
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UN Human Rights Council exemplifies the absurdity of it’s name

 

Human Rights Council makes a mockery of it’s mandate by completely ignoring the world’s victims in its self satisfying personal agenda.

Ignoring continuing Syrian atrocities against it populace on a regular bases and the IDF providing emergency medical attention to the wounded Syrians in Israeli hospitals, the UN Human Rights Council passed with the support of 33 members Agenda Item 7, condemning ‘Israeli treatment of the Syrian population on the Golan Heights.’

By Ynetnews

 

Israel’s staunch ally, America, was the sole buffer against five resolutions which passed Friday against the Jewish State at the UN’s top human rights body. Continue Reading »

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| March 25, 2014
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Injured Syrians in Israel call on the IDF to bomb Syria

Ziv Medical Center in northern Israel is currently treating 16 Syrian patients who call Hezbollah ‘Satan’s organization’ and express their gratitude for the treatment they are given.

By Hassan Shaalan

 

“I’ve always thought of Israel as an enemy state that is not willing to help us. My case changed my thinking entirely. Israel is a good country that saves our lives, while the Syrian regime murders its citizens,” said one of the Syrian patients currently treated at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed.

Of the 16 Syrian patients in the Israeli hospital, three are in serious condition. Among them are children and rebels who fought against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s army. Continue Reading »

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| March 19, 2014
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Israeli Jets Strike Syria – Killing 1, Wounding 7

—- SPECIAL SECURITY REPORT —-

Syria’s armed forces confirms Israeli airstrike that targeted 3 sites near Qunaitra, warning Israel against endangering region stability.

By REUTERS
 

 

Israeli air strikes on Wednesday against Syrian military sites near the Golan Heights killed one person and wounded seven others, Syria’s armed forces said, warning that the attacks endangered stability in the region.

IAF's F-16 'Fighting Falcon'- Photo courtesy IDF Spokesperson Unit

IAF’s F-16 ‘Fighting Falcon’- Photo courtesy IDF Spokesperson Unit

An armed forces statement said the strikes targeted three sites near the town of Qunaitra.

It is periodically necessary for Israel to take “aggressive action” so that the quiet in the north will be maintained, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday just hours after the IAF hit targets in Syria in response to Tuesday’s attack on an IDF jeep on the Golan Heights. Continue Reading »

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| March 18, 2014
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4 IDF soldiers hurt by blast on Israel-Syrian border

 

 

Four Israeli soldiers were wounded Tuesday after an explosive device was detonated on their patrol along the Syrian border, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams.

File picture shows Israeli soldiers in a training field in the Golan Heights, next to the Israeli-Syrian border ( Jack Guez (AFP/File) )

Israel responded to the explosion with artillery fire on the Syrian city of Quneitra, where the assailants were believed to have hailed from and air force jets have reportedly been circling over the northern Golan Heights.

The army also instructed local farmers to evacuate the area and all construction works on the Syrian border fence have been temporarily halted.

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| March 15, 2014
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IDF doctor treating Syrians in Israel: Snipers deliberately shoot children in spine

 

Doctor in Israeli hospital makes comment after UN report reflects child casualty rates in Syrian conflict as the highest recorded in the region.

By Inna Lazareva, Nahariya, Israel

 

A senior Israeli doctor treating child victims of the Syrian civil war has said that snipers in the war-town country are aiming for the spine to cause maximum trauma.

A Syrian boy on a wheelchair in Qah refugee camp. A UN report notes child casualty rates in Syria are the highest recorded - Photo Bulent Kilic AFP

A Syrian boy on a wheelchair in Qah refugee camp. A UN report notes child casualty rates in Syria are the highest recorded – Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Dr Yoav Hoffman, a doctor at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, is one of many doctors who has been treating severely wounded Syrians at the Western Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, northern Israel. Continue Reading »

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| March 5, 2014
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IDF Shoots Dead 2 Hezbollah Terrorists Placing Bomb on Border with Syria

IDF soldiers engaged and then killed two terrorists last night who tried blowing up border fence on Golan Heights.

By Ari Yashar

 

IDF forces clashed with terrorists on Tuesday night in the northern Golan Heights. Soldiers opened fire on terrorists who placed an explosive on the border fence with Syria.

“Earlier today, two Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists were identified attempting to plant an explosive device near the Israel-Syria border in the northern Golan Heights. IDF forces… fired towards the suspects (and) hits were identified,” the army said in a statement.

A group of suspicious figures approached the fence in the middle of the night, and attempted to blow up the barrier.

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| March 1, 2014
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IDF units on alert on Syrian border following alleged airstrike on Hezbollah

 

Fearing Syrian reaction to rumored Israeli airstrike on Syria-Lebanon border, IDF command gives patrolling forces armored vehicles.

By Yoav Zitun, Roi Kais

 

The tensions on the northern border following Israel’s alleged strike in Lebanon have not skipped over the Golan Heights. The IDF Northern Command’s decision to raise the level of alert fearing a Hezbollah retaliation also affects the border with Syria, that has turned into a border as dangerous and as sensitive as the Lebanese border.

IDF tank unit preparing for the evening – IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

Troops on the Golan Heights were also instructed to raise the level of alert out of concern retaliatory strikes will come from the Syrian side of the border. Continue Reading »

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| February 20, 2014
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Syrian father asks Israeli doctors after death of wife & son: Save my boy, he’s all I have left

 

Israeli doctors at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa preforms brain surgery to save wounded Syrian child after mother & brother killed in Syria by explosion.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Rambam Medical Center in Haifa performed life-saving brain surgery on a Syrian child, releasing him this week, the hospital announced Thursday.

WOUNDED SYRIANS are treated at this Israeli field hospital on the Golan Heights. Photo: REUTERS

WOUNDED SYRIANS are treated at this Israeli field hospital on the Golan Heights.  – Photo: REUTERS

After arriving at the hospital in critical condition from Syria, the child’s father told doctors, “Please save him, he’s all I have left.”

According to a press release, the child was released earlier this week on his own feet and walking. Continue Reading »

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| February 16, 2014
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Civil war facilitates thaw in Israeli-Syrian relations as Syrians are spreading the word

 

The disintegration of Assad’s regime is changing the opinions many of his people have of the Jewish state, after more than 700 Syrians have received needed medical attention in Israel.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

 

SOFIA, Bulgaria – Before protests demanding democracy broke out in Syria in 2011, ordinary Israelis had no meaningful contacts with ordinary Syrians.

IDF Humanitarian Aid on Syrian Border

IDF Humanitarian Aid on Syrian Border – Photo courtesy: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

The disintegration of the Syrian state has changed everything, including the view of many in the country toward the Jewish state. In interviews with The Jerusalem Post at two refugee camps in Sofia and in a hotel outside the city least week, Syrians expressed new perspectives on Israel. Continue Reading »

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| February 2, 2014
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IDF Field Hospital Serving Syria’s Wounded Operates 24/7

 

 

Defense Ministry allows the IDF to publicize it’s efforts about its Golan field hospital established over a year ago to aid the victims of the Syrian civil war.

By Israel Today Staff

 

It sounds odd, and Israel is likely completely unique in this regard, but the Jewish state has established a field hospital in service to the citizens of an enemy state involved in a war that Israel has nothing to do with.

IDF Field Hospital Serving Syria - Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit

IDF Field Hospital Serving Syria – Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

It is already common knowledge that for the past year or so Israel has been taking in Syrians wounded in their own nation’s ongoing civil war. Continue Reading »

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