Ограничена израелска доселеничка група се прикрадува во Сирија за да се обиде да бара земјиште за еврејска станицапревод

NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military was about to launch a nighttime strike on a group of men in southern Syria when the soldiers noticed the long curls dangling from the temples of their targets. Војниците го задржаа својот оган.

These were not Syrian militants attempting to breach Israel’s border, but religious Jews who had slipped into Syria and were on their way back.

The episode, first reported last week by Israel’s public broadcaster and confirmed to The Associated Press by the Israeli military, has helped raise the profile of a fringe group of Israeli settlers that has staged numerous incursions into Syria, where they hope to establish Jewish settlements .

Israel’s military has occupied the area in southern Syria for more than a year, but forays by civilian settler groups into the region have only recently became a regular occurrence.

Групите, со десетици членови, се обидуваа да преминат од Израел во Сирија на секои неколку дена во последните недели. The military is tasked with reining them in and, while most Israelis regard them as fringe, the wider settlement movement in Israel has strong backers in the country’s far-right government.

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