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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
IDF will act to prevent slaughter of Syrian refugees, says IDF chief
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIDF Chief of General Staff Lt. General Gadi Eisenkot says that the IDF is concerned about a potential influx of refugees who may try to infiltrate the Golan Heights border, escaping the civil war tearing Syria apart.
In Eisenkot’s first appearance as IDF chief before the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, he says Syria is in advanced stages of disintegration.
There are hundreds of thousands of homeless people in Syria and millions in neighboring countries, says Eisenkot, mostly in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey.
The IDF will act to prevent a massive influx of refugees but will also take humanitarian action to prevent a slaughter of the fleeing refugees.
— Mitch Ginsburg
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