{"id":581061,"date":"2026-08-11T04:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581061\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T04:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:48:09","slug":"idf-returns-three-israelis-who-crossed-into-syria-from-mount-hermon-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581061\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF returns three Israelis who crossed into Syria from Mount Hermon area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Israeli civilians who crossed into Syria from the Mount Hermon area overnight were returned to Israel by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/idf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IDF<\/a>, the military announced in a Tuesday morning statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">It noted that upon return, all three were transferred to Israel Police for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The military condemned the civilians\u2019 behavior, explaining that such incidents not only disturb IDF activity in the area, but are considered to be criminal offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The incident follows a rising trend of Israeli civilians and activists breaching the Israel-Syria border over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to the military, troops dispatched to Mount Hermon located the two, returned them to Israeli territory, and transferred them to police.<\/p>\n<p>However, an earlier report from Army Radio said the activists were only in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/syria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Syrian<\/a> territory for several hours on Wednesday morning before being located by the IDF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The activists were returned to Israeli territory and handed over to police, the IDF said, noting that the military &#8220;strongly condemns&#8221; such incidents as they disrupt operations and create a dangerous situation for all involved.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Ben-Nun and Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Israeli civilians who crossed into Syria from the Mount Hermon area overnight were returned to Israel by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1031,85,46,1158,36232,2899,117431,43,4713],"class_list":["post-581061","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-military","tag-mount-hermon","tag-news","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581061","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=581061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}