{"id":446805,"date":"2026-05-17T22:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/446805\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:51:07","slug":"ten-israeli-civilians-who-crossed-israel-syria-border-caught-by-idf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/446805\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Israeli civilians who crossed Israel-Syria border caught by IDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Israeli civilians were arrested after crossing the Israel-Syria border, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-896479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IDF<\/a> announced on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>IDF soldiers operating in the area returned the civilians from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/syria-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Syrian to Israeli<\/a> territory, before transferring them to the Israel Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;The IDF strongly condemns this incident and emphasizes its severity, which constitutes a criminal offense that endangers civilians and IDF soldiers,&#8221; the military stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">KAN News reported that this was the fourth time in the past day that activists from the Habashan Pioneers group had attempted to cross the border. The Habashan Pioneers is one of several groups which seek to establish Jewish settlements inside Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The civilians succeeded in traveling several hundred meters into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-896106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Syria<\/a> before being apprehended by the military. The IDF then returned the civilians to Israel and transferred them to the Israel Police for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The civilians were members of the Habashan Pioneers, according to reports in Israeli media.<\/p>\n<p>James Genn contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten Israeli civilians were arrested after crossing the Israel-Syria border, the IDF announced on Sunday night. IDF soldiers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1031,85,46,1158,36232,43,4713],"class_list":["post-446805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-israeli-syrian-border","tag-news","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}