Israel Opens Tourist Tours to Syria
Kyiv • UNN
Israel has launched tours of the Golan buffer zone captured in Syria after the fall of Assad. The route includes Mount Hermon overlooking Damascus and the Shebaa farms.
Representatives of the IDF and the regional council of the Golan Heights organized hiking tours for tourists during the Passover holiday to the recently occupied Israeli territory of Syria.
UNN reports with reference to The Guardian.
Details
Israel has announced the launch of tourist tours in the buffer zone of the Golan, recently captured by Israel in Syria. The trips are organized by the 210th Division of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the Golan Regional Council, the Keshet Yehonatan Religious Education Center, the Golani Environmental Field School, and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Yediot Ahronot newspaper reports.
Visitors will be able to travel through Syrian territory for a distance of up to 2.5 km. This area was forbidden to be visited by civilian tourists until the IDF captured the Golan buffer zone after the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad in December 2024. We also remind that Israel occupied the Golan Heights in 1967 and has since controlled hundreds of square kilometers of Syria.
It should be noted that the route of the proposed tourist tour includes the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, which overlooks Damascus, as well as the Shebaa farms at the foot of the mountain. The latter is a strip of territory that is considered the site of God's covenant with Abraham. These places, which previously belonged to Lebanon, have been a hotspot of violence for decades, involving Hezbollah and the IDF.
Returning to the itinerary of the tourist tour, it should be noted that visitors are offered to visit the Rukad River Valley, which flows into the Yarmuk on the border with Jordan. There is also an opportunity to see parts of the abandoned Ottoman Hejaz Railway, which connected the capital of the Ottoman Empire with Haifa, Nablus and holy sites in modern Saudi Arabia.
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