Israelis crossing the Syrian border refused to help with terrorist attack

Israelis crossing the Syrian border refused to help with terrorist attack

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The Israeli woman who crossed into Syria earlier this year and was sent back in a controversial deal was asked by Syrian authorities to help carry out a terrorist attack on Israeli soldiers, but refused to do so, according to the accusation against her published Sunday.

The charge sheet describes how the woman entered Syria. On January 31, the woman travels to Kiryat Shmona in the Golan Heights, and on February 1, she travels by bus to Majdal Shams. From Majdal Shams she walks to Mount Hermon with a bag of food, personal equipment, a telephone and a camera.

Around midnight, she crossed the border into Syria and left the bag behind. She then walked for several hours before arriving at the Syrian village of Hader, east of Majdal Shams, where she was surrounded by a large crowd and taken to the local police station. At the police station, her camera was confiscated and she was transferred to a prison and interrogated before being transferred to a prison in Damascus, where she was detained for several days in difficult circumstances.

While in prison, she told Syrian authorities where she was crossing the border and showed them the location on a map and explained to them how she had undertaken the journey. Authorities asked her to show them how she walked and to return on the road and lead Syrian soldiers to a position of the IDF so they could shoot IDF soldiers. The woman refused to do so, saying she was not interested in the death or murder and that the IDF soldiers would not be killed but would rather be abducted and brought to Syria.

The woman was kept in Syrian custody until February 16, and after reaching an agreement between Israel and Syria, she was flown to Russia and returned to Israel on February 19.

The woman is accused of leaving the country illegally and entering Syria illegally.

This was not the first time the woman had crossed borders illegally or endangered herself with Israel’s neighbors.

In the indictment, the woman is described as a “nomadic lifestyle and throughout Israel without a permanent address”. The woman repeatedly visited places in the Palestinian Authority illegally.
IN OCTOBER last year, the woman traveled to Galilee and drove along the border with Lebanon. During the visit, she stops along the border and talks to Lebanese citizens near the border fence. The indictment confirmed that the photos published by Hezbollah-affiliated reporter Ali Shoeib of an Israeli woman in a vehicle near the Lebanese border were actually of the woman who crossed the border into Syria.

Photos taken from Lebanon in October 2020 and shared on Twitter showed an Israeli woman in a vehicle near the border fence. The media linked to Hezbollah at the time claimed she was a soldier sent to the border in civilian clothes by the IDF.

“Since there are no men in the Zionist army who hide and fear !! Today they sent a female soldier in a car and civilian clothes to scan the military road … Note: the enemy did not dare send soldiers to the region two and a half months ago !! ”Read a tweet by Shoeib at the time.

The Hezbollah reporter claims that the civilians are not accessible to civilians as it is closed by an iron gate that can only be opened with the approval of the IDF. Israel was also in the midst of a national shutdown of the coronavirus at the time, which means that if the woman was more than 1 kilometer from her home, she was also violating the regulations of the Ministry of Health.

The woman also traveled along the border with the Gaza Strip on November 30 and even tried to enter the strip, but was caught before she could do so. Israeli authorities explained to her that it was illegal and dangerous, but she tried again, this time by sea on a surfboard, but was captured by the Israeli navy and arrested in an area known as a closed military zone. be considered.

In early January, the woman illegally crossed into Jordan on a bicycle and arrived at a Jordanian military post, where she talked to the soldiers and drank coffee with them. She was then taken to several places for several hours before being interrogated by a person who introduced himself as the head of Jordanian intelligence. She was then returned to Israel through the Yitzhak Rabin border crossing.

Details of the agreement reached between Israel and Syria through Russian mediation to bring the woman back from Syria are still unclear and some details are under military censorship. Israel has released two shepherds who went to Israel in exchange for the woman and apparently also agreed to buy more than a million dollars worth of Russian coronavirus vaccines for Syria.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that no Israeli vaccines were sent to Syria in the barter deal, but does not deny that Israel paid for vaccinations. The Syrian state news agency SANA has rejected reports that Israel has been vaccinated.

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