The IDF will remain on Mount Hermon and in the Syrian security zone "to protect the communities of the Golan and the Galilee," said Israel Katz.
The Israel Defense Forces will remain in their positions inside Syrian territory to protect the Jewish state’s northern border communities, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz reiterated on Tuesday morning.
IDF troops will remain in their positions on Mount Hermon and in the security zone “to protect the communities of the Golan and the Galilee from threats emanating from the Syrian side, as the central lesson from the events of October 7,” Katz wrote in a Hebrew-language statement, referring to the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
“We will also continue to protect the Druze in Syria,” he said.
