IDF’s Golan commander says troops will defend border ‘with any means necessary’

The head of the IDF’s Bashan Division, which secures the Golan Heights, praises his soldiers for their actions during last night’s mutual air bombardments with Iranian and Syrian forces and warns that his unit is prepared to defend the border “with any means necessary.”

Brig. Gen. Amit Fisher, who took command of the division earlier this year, lauds the cooperation with military intelligence and the theater’s Iron Dome batteries, which shot down four rockets that the army says were fired by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps shortly after midnight.

“Everyone operated professionally, with great coordination and allowed us, in a few hours of combat, to bring about the significant achievements that we wanted,” says Fisher in a video statement released by the army.

“We want a quiet border [with Syria], like we’ve had for more than 40 years,” the commander says.

“Enemy forces who approach the border and try to carry out an attack against us — we’ll take care to drive them back, with any means necessary,” he says.

— Judah Ari Gross