IDF Temporarily Seizes Control of Syrian Side of Mount Hermon As Regime Falls

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The IDF on Sunday captured the Syrian side of Mount Hermon which was abandoned by ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s army. The decision to capture the area was approved unanimously overnight by the cabinet.

The soldiers who operated and captured the Syrian peak of the mountain, for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973, were part of the IAF’s Shaldag Unit.

At the same time, the IDF announced that students from Buq’ata, Ein Qiniyye, Mas’ade, and Majdal Shams in the northern Golan Heights will shift to online studies, while kindergartens operate as usual. Elsewhere in the Golan, studies continue as normal.

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