By JTA
Israel has awarded the first-ever oil drilling permit in the Golan Heights. On the eve of almost every high-level visit to Israel by US officials, the Israeli government habitually has angered the American government by coming up with an approval for building in Judea and Samaria or areas in Jerusalem that are claimed by the […]
There are concerns about the flight of millions of displaced Syrians over the border into Israel.
For the second time today, gunfire from Syria crossed the border into Israel on the Golan Heights. An IDF vehicle was nearly hit. No injuries were reported.
An IDF soldier on the Golan Heights was lightly injured by shrapnel from a stray mortar that shot from Syria as part of their civil war. An IDF soldier on the Golan Heights was lightly injured by a stray bullet that shot from Syria as part of their civil war.
Late Monday afternoon, Israel time, a mortar shell hit an open area in the vicinity of an IDF post in the central Golan Heights, as part of the internal conflict inside Syria, causing no damage or injuries.
TAZPIT NEWS AGENCY--A short while ago, a mortar shell hit an IDF post in the Golan Heights adjacent to the Israel- Syria border, as part of the internal conflict inside Syria. No damage or injuries have been reported. In response, IDF soldiers fired warning shots towards Syrian areas. The IDF has filed a complaint through […]
A mortar from Syrian internecine fighting fell Sunday afternoon on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights. The mortar fell near the town of Alonei HaBashan. No injuries or damage were reported.
Three mortar shells landed in Israel’s Golan Heights on Thursday morning, in what security officials are saying is an accidental firing as part of the bloody battle between forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad and a growing militant opposition.
By Daniel Pipes
Shimon Shiffer reports in Yedioth Ahronoth that in secret talks in 2010 via U.S. government mediator Frederic C. Hof, Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed in principle to a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights to the June 4, 1967, lines in return for the "expectation" of Bashar al-Assad cutting ties with Iran, and that the nearly-completed negotiations ended because of the anti-Assad uprising that began in January 2011.
In the past hour, mortar fire erupted on Israel's northern border, causing explosions in what appear, for now, to be open fields. No injuries, but some property damage that's not yet detailed in the news here. It's reported that the fire is a kind of spillover from the barbarism unfolding over the past year inside Syria: the source is believed to be forces of the Syrian army "engaged" - as the journalists like to put it - with rebel forces near Syria's border with Israel.
By Shalom Bear
A Syrian rocket, launched between the Syrian army and the Syrian rebels ended up hitting the Israeli side of the Golan Heights on Wednesday afternoon. There were no injuries or damage from the strike. On Tuesday, a number of mortars hit the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, also from fighting between the Syrian army […]
IDF Spokespersons Office: Sergeant Yonatan Ben-Yishai, 20, died of his wounds Thursday morning. Ben -Yishai was injured on Monday during a training exercise in Golan Heights.
Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak on Thursday toured the Northern Command and the Golan Heights along with commanders stationed in the region and addressed recent occurrences in Syria. He said that the targeting of top security officials of Bashar al-Assad's regime by oppositions forces in Damascus "will greatly expedite the fall of the Assad family." Barak told reporters that the IDF is preparing for the possibility that waves of refugees will escape from Syria to the Golan Heights. "If required to stop waves of refugees, we will do so," he stated.