Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar visits the Syrian border and meets with the commander of UN forces in the area.
At the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force base at Camp Zivant, Sa’ar meets with Maj. Gen. Patrick Gauchat, commander of UNDOF and the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, and with other senior officers of the force monitoring the border between Israel and Syria.
In a statement, Sa’ar says that he “heard praise there for the cooperation with Israel in general and with the IDF in particular.”
“We discussed the effective collaboration between the IDF and their forces,” says Sa’ar on X. “UNDOF forces were attacked by extremist armed groups in the buffer zone in violation of the Disengagement Agreement.”
He adds, “Israel is closely monitoring the situation in Syria, and will not jeopardize its own security. We will not allow another October 7 on any front.”
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