14.08.2011                      14.Aw-Elul, 5771

Minenlegung:

IDF planting mines at Syria border before September

Move aims to prevent "Nakba Day" style border crossing infiltrations following Palestinian declaration of statehood in the United Nations.

Anticipating protests following the Palestinian Authority’s declaration of statehood next month, the IDF has planted additional anti-personnel mines along the border on the Golan Heights that it hopes will prevent infiltrations into Israel.
The army experienced its first taste of the demonstrations on May 15, when more than 100 Palestinians from Syria crossed into the Israeli side of the Golan Heights….