The IDF is at present aiding the UN forces in repelling an assault that was carried out by armed people at a UN publish within the Hader space in Syria, the IDF introduced Saturday night.
Also on Saturday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi performed a situational evaluation and the approval course of for defensive and offensive plans for the 210th Division alongside members of the General Staff Forum and the commanding officer of the 210th Division on Saturday on the border with Syria.
On Friday, the IDF ordered reinforcements be despatched to the Golan Heights after southern Syrian rebels took over a lot of the south and border area on Friday.
“The key focuses are, first, monitoring Iranian involvement and pursuits, which is our high precedence. Second, observing the native components on the bottom – what they’re doing, how they’re behaving, and the way they’re deterred, guaranteeing they don’t mistakenly flip their focus in direction of us,” Halevi mentioned through the scenario evaluation.
“If such confusion happens, we’ve a robust offensive response, supported by a really sturdy defensive posture. We should stay ready each offensively and defensively,” Halevi continued.
“We have to conduct situational assessments each few hours. In this atmosphere, each incident right here units a precedent and drives modifications shifting ahead. Therefore, we’re carefully monitoring developments with all our intelligence-gathering capabilities,” Halevi warned.
Halevi additionally confused that, alongside these efforts, Israel won’t intervene in occasions in Syria.
The border of the Golan Heights
The city of Hader lies simply over the border from the Golan Heights, close to the city of Majdal Shams, the place Hezbollah killed 12 kids.
A UN base sits between the Israeli-controlled territory to the west and the Syrian-controlled territory to the east.
The Golan Regional Council knowledgeable its residents that “in the previous few minutes, gunfire has been heard within the space. This is the firing of our forces, who’re deployed in protection within the space.”
Residents of the Golan advised Maariv that they had been cautious of developments and weren’t certain whether or not the rebels can be any completely different than Assad.
Who hit who?
It remains to be unclear who attacked the bottom, with a number of disparate teams preventing within the south because the rebels started to take maintain solely final evening.
The southern uprisings started on Friday evening after northern rebels superior on Homs, threatening to chop off the Syrian authorities from the ocean and Russian help.
Southern teams should not united politically, being composed of a number of factions, starting from native self-defense militias to organized Druze militias to jihadist teams that had been in hiding.
This is a growing story.
