Engineering Corps commandos and Nahal Brigade soldiers entered the demilitarized area on the Syria border and destroyed the two Syrian outposts without any incidents. The 1974 agreement between Israel and Syria states that the border buffer zone may only be occupied by the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, yet the Syrian military recently deployed their forces to the Golan Heights buffer zone. Col. Tal Goritzki, Nahal Brigade Lieutenant said “every Syrian military establishment has the potential to become a dual military establishment. We won’t allow southern Syria to become southern Lebanon.”
The Crossroads of Special Operations