REPORT: Islamist fighters seize Syria crossing near Israel - monitor

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REPORT: Islamist fighters seize Syria crossing near Israel - monitor
Al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front and other Islamist fighters have taken control of a border crossing on the line dividing Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Wednesday.        

The fighters, who have vowed to "liberate" the area,  captured the Quneitra post on the Syrian side from forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad after fierce clashes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.        

The crossing is monitored by the United Nations, which oversees traffic between the two enemy countries but the distance between the two warring adversaries' posts is some 200 metres (yards).

Earlier in the day, stray fire from Syria moderately wounded an Israeli soldier in the occupied Golan Heights, the army said, as fighting between rebels and the Syrian army approached the border fence area.

Israeli emergency services said the soldier was wounded by errant mortar shell and evacuated to a local hospital.
 
Shortly after the incident, local media reported that Syrian rebels took hold of the Quneitra border crossing.
 
Shelling from the Syrian civil war has occasionally spilled over onto the Golan, including what Israel has said were deliberate attacks on its troops.

Israel captured the western part of the plateau from Syria in a 1967 war and annexed it in a move that is not internationally recognized.

While the Syrian army has a presence on the Golan, some areas are controlled by rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad, including al Qaeda-inspired militants hostile to the Jewish state.


REUTERS


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