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| July 22, 2013
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Syrian regime accused of firing chemical weapons on Palestinians

Opposition fighters report 22 killed in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus from gas inhalation.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

Syrian opposition activists say that the military has used chemical weapons against the Al Yarmouk district of Damascus, an area of the city comprised predominantly of Palestinian refugees, Israel Radio reported.

A Free Syrian Army fighter in Yarmouk refugee camp

A Free Syrian Army fighter in Yarmouk refugee camp – Photo: REUTERS

Palestinian sources said that 22 people have been killed in the area, most from inhalation of poisonous gases.

In what was considered a significant tactical and moral victory, forces battling to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad captured the Yarmouk region this past December.

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| July 18, 2013
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Report contradicts CNN: Israeli submarine strike hit Syria’s missile storage depot

UK daily contradicts a CNN report claiming that the Israeli air force bombed Syrian weapons depot, and they say attack was coordinated with the Pentagon.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

 

Israeli Dolphin-class submarines carried out a July 5 attack on an arms depot in the Syrian port city of Latakia, according to a report in the British Sunday Times, which contradicted a previous CNN report that the attack was the work of the Israel Air Force.

A Dolphin-class submarine docks in Haifa port.

A German built Dolphin-class submarine docks in Haifa port. – Photo: Reuters

The alleged Israeli naval strike was closely coordinated with the United States and targeted a contingent of 50 Russian-made Yakhont P-800 anti-ship missiles that had arrived earlier in the year for Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, the Times cited Middle East intelligence sources as stating.

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| July 17, 2013
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Syrians Fire on IDF Night-Patrol in Golan Heights, IDF Returns Fire

IDF on regular night patrol of border with Syria in the Golan comes under direct fire, returns fire at group of unidentified suspects on the Syrian frontier.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN
 

 

An army force on a routine patrol of the border with Syria on the Golan Heights came under fire and shot back at a group of unidentified suspects on the frontier.

There were no injuries among IDF soldiers in the incident.

IDF troops survey the Golan Heights.

IDF troops survey the Golan Heights.- Photo: REUTERS

IDF soldiers identified a group of suspects who had entered an unmanned military post along the Syrian-Israeli border.

The suspects did not cross the border fence, but were in Israeli territory when they attacked the IDF, an army spokeswoman said. Continue Reading »

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| July 16, 2013
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Numerous shells hit Golan from Syrian battle

No injuries, no damage in what looks like apparent stray fire from ongoing fighting between Syrian gov’t forces & rebels fighters.

By Gil Ronen
exploded shell - Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

exploded shell – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

 

 

Mortar fire from inside war-torn Syria hit the Israeli part of the Golan Heights on Tuesday, an IDF spokeswoman said.

“Several mortar rounds fired from Syria exploded in northern Golan without causing any damage or casualties,” the spokeswoman told AFP.

It was apparently stray fire from fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels and was not deliberately fired towards Israeli territory, she added.

The Golan has been tense since the beginning of the conflict in Syria more than two years ago, but so far there have been only minor flare-ups as Syrian small arms fire or mortar rounds hit the Israeli side, prompting an occasional Israeli response. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2013
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Israeli Druze Students studying in Syria return home for summer break

Expressing their ambivalence at the prospect of returning

, dozens of Druze studying in Syria returned to Israel for their summer break, recall experiences & hardship of studying in a country at war.

Hassan Shaalan

Dozens of Druze students returned Thursday from Damascus to their Golan Heights homes to a slew of hugs and tears of joy on the part of their families.

התקבלו בשלום ובברכה (צילום: אביהו שפירא)

Students return from Syria – Photo: Avihu Shapira

A number of them spoke to Ynet and recalled the fear shrouding the country and expressed reservation regarding the prospect of returning to Bashar Assad‘s war-torn Syria for the remainder of their studies. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2013
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Israel fortifies its Syrian border to answer Hezbollah threat

 

Israel worried Nasrallah is making initial preparations for future confrontation on new Golan front.

 

Source:  Jihadi rebels busy now but once civil war ends they will turn their guns on Jewish State

By Reuters

 

Israel is bolstering its forces on the once-quiet frontier with Syria where it believes Lebanese Hezbollah militants are preparing for the day when they could fight Israel.

פיצוץ מכונית התופת בביירות אתמול. המורדים הסורים חשודים (צילום: EPA)

Car bomb explosion in Beirut, Tuesday – Photo: EPA

Syria’s civil war has brought an end to decades of calm on the Golan Heights, a strip of land which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war. Continue Reading »

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| June 26, 2013
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2 wounded Syrian kids treated in Israeli hospital – 2nd time this week

IDF medics transferred the 2 civilian casualties, a child & a teenager into Israel late Tuesday night for treatment in Safed’s Rivka Sieff Medical Center.

30 Syrian civilians have been hospitalized there since start of civil war.

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Israel Defense Forces medical teams transferred two wounded Syrian children into Israel late Tuesday night for treatment in Safed’s Rivka Sieff Medical Center.

IDF troops on Israel-Syria border

IDF troops on Israel-Syria border, June 25, 2013. – Photo: Ap

 

One of the wounded, a 15-year-old, is in serious condition after suffering multiple internal wounds and having already undergone surgery in Syria. The other, 9-years-old, is in moderate condition after suffering shrapnel wounds all over his body and losing his right eye. Continue Reading »

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| June 23, 2013
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34 Hezbollah of 100 killed killed in battles near Damascus

US tries to coordinate military aid to opposition and still rebel officials say over 100 people died in battles on Saturday. 

By REUTERS, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

Syrian opposition officials say that 34 Hezbollah fighters were killed in battles near the Damascus area on Saturday. In total, over 100 people died in the war-torn country over the weekend.

Flags of Hezbollah, Assad's Syria

Flags of Hezbollah, Assad’s Syria Photo: – REUTERS/Ali Hashisho

It is estimated that over 100,000 Syrian combatants and civilians have died since the uprising against the regime of Bashar Assad began two years ago.

Washington wants Western and Arab allies to commit to directing all aid to Syrian rebels through the Western-backed Supreme Military Council, a senior US official said before talks in Qatar on Saturday, to try to reduce the power of jihadi groups.

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| June 23, 2013
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Israeli Druze appeal to gov’t to aid family members in Syria

Israeli Druze leaders from northern Israel have asked the Israeli government to allow their children who are in Syria to return to home.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

Druze leaders in northern Israel have appealed to the Israeli government to allow their children who had crossed the border into Syria and stayed there, back into the Jewish State.

In a written request to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the leaders asked not only for the students to return home, but also for permits for the Syrian relatives of the students – spouses and other family members – to cross the border to safety in Israel. Continue Reading »

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| June 17, 2013
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Hamas tells Hezbollah: Leave Syria & just focus on fighting Israel

 

Hamas says Hezbollah involvement inflames sectarian conflict in Syria “and to keep their weapons directed against the Zionist enemy,” 

The Saudis begin supplying French paid anti-aircraft missiles to the rebels.

By REUTERS

 

 

 

GAZA – The Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement on Monday urged Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to withdraw its forces from Syria, where they are battling for Syrian President Bashar Assad, and focus on fighting Israel instead.

Brothers who are members of a rebel group called Martyr Al-Abbas pose for a picture in Aleppo.

Brothers who are members of a rebel group called Martyr Al-Abbas pose for a picture in Aleppo. – Photo: REUTERS

Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, was once an Assad ally but last year endorsed the revolt against him in a shift that at the time deprived the Syrian leader of an important Sunni Muslim supporter in the Arab world.

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| June 17, 2013
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Sarah Palin on aiding Syrian Rebels: ‘Let Allah Sort it Out’

Former U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin criticizes President Barack Obama for his inept handing of the Syrian civil war.

By Rina Tzvi

 

Former United States vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin criticized President Barack Obama for his handing of the Syrian conflict, Al Arabiya news reported.

Syrian soldiers

Syrian soldiers – AFP file

“We’re talking now more new interventions,” said the Republican former governor of Alaska. “Until we have a commander in chief who knows what he’s doing… I say let Allah sort it out.”

Her comments come as Obama is set to meet the Russian president for tough talks on Syria.

British Prime Minister David Cameron held a press conference with Vladamir Putin on Sunday, highlighting the differences between the West and Russia. Continue Reading »

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| June 16, 2013
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First time a Direct Syria Hospital to Israeli Hospital transfer

Over a dozen wounded Syrians have been ferried to their border and given to IDF medics for transfer & treatment in Israel’s Northern hospital.

To guarantee the patients life, a wounded man after surgery was sent by his Syrian doctors to an Israeli hospital. This cooperation should be made public with hopes of ending hostilities between two old neighbors.

By Sara Gates  

  

A Syrian doctor recently asked Israel for help in saving the life of a critically wounded patient. Continue Reading »

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| June 13, 2013
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Israel Air Force Pilots are Training to Neutralize all Syrian or Lebanese Threats

IAF pilots have begun daily training to meet any possible threat posed by the growing instability in neighboring Syria & Lebanon.

By Rina Tzvi

 

Israeli air force pilots are training daily to meet threats posed by instability in neighboring Syria and Lebanon, pilots at a base in the north of the Jewish state said on Wednesday.

 

Daily drills include preparing to counter “the transfer of all kinds of weapons that could lead to terror attacks,” Lieutenant Colonel N, who could not reveal his last name, told the AFP news agency on a rare visit by journalists to Ramat David air base. Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2013
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Wounded Syrian sent to Israel with thank you note from doctor.

 

Syrian being treated in Safed hospital brings note from doctors who treated him before being transfer to Israel.

Note reads: ‘Patient was hit by bullet that penetrated his chest and caused a fracture in the lungs. Please do what is needed. Thank you in advance’ 

By Maor Buchnik

One of the two injured Syrians who were admitted to Safed‘s Ziv Medical Center on Saturday entered Israel with a note from the doctor who gave him first aid on the other side of the border.

The note, which was written in Arabic and addressed to Israeli doctors, includes details about the injured young Syrian’s condition: “To the respectable surgeon hello. Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2013
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Austria began withdrawing their peacekeepers from Syrian Golan Heights

Because of the escalating encounters between Syrian rebels & gov’t forces, which left 2 UN soldiers wounded last week, Austria decided to pull out of the region and entered the protection of Israel.

Austrian troops made up the biggest contingent in the 1,000-strong UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Austria has begun withdrawing peacekeepers from the Golan Heights, winding down a four-decade mission due to spillover fighting from the Syrian civil war, the Austrian Defense Ministry said.

Austrian U.N. peacekeepers withdrawing from Syria carry their belongings as they cross border between Israel and Syria at Quneitra on Wednesday – Photo: AP

A Reuters journalist stationed in the Golan Heights said Austrian troops had already moved from the Quneitra crossing point to a United Nations base inside the Israeli-held part of the heights on Tuesday.

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