Israeli army helps UN repel gunman attack on Syrian outpost in Golan Heights

Israel’s military announced today that it is helping UN forces “repulse” an attack in Syria on the border with the part of the Syrian Golan Heights that Israel has seized and annexed. “Armed men attacked a UN post in the Hunter region of Syria,” the army said in a statement, referring to a town on the edge of the UN-controlled Golan buffer zone, noting that it was “helping UN forces repel the attack”. The Israeli military says it has reinforced its forces in this area, which Israel captured from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967. In 1974, a UN force was sent to a neutral zone to monitor compliance of the truce. As rebels led by radical Islamists stage a spectacular offensive in Syria over the past week, Israel’s military says it will continue to act to protect the state […]
Source: News Beast

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