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The facility, located close to the Hader area, aims to provide care for the Syrian-Druze population, who are often targeted during periods of regional stability.
By Shula Rosen
The IDF’s 210th Division and the Medical Corps have so far treated over 500 patients in southern Syria.
Israel’s military medical corps has deployed a mobile forward facility for triage and treatment of the sick and the wounded, mainly among the Druze population.
The facility, located close to the Hader area, aims to provide care for the Syrian-Druze population, who are often targeted during periods of regional stability.
The IDF’s presence in southern Syria is also intended to protect the Druze population in the Golan Heights.
“IDF troops continue to operate in Syria to maintain the security of the residents of the Golan Heights and to establish a security zone while providing assistance to the local population,” an IDF statement said.
The mobile forward triage facility provides urgent care for emergency situations as well as medical evaluations of the ill and injured.
The effort continues the tradition of protecting the Syrian-Druze population and border communities.
During the Syrian Civil War, the IDF launched the “Good Neighbor Project,” which treated thousands of Syrian civilians and, in some cases, transported them to Israel for medical care.
Between 2013 and 2018, the IDF transferred more than 4,900 wounded Syrians and over 1,300 sick children to Israeli hospitals. In addition, Israel set up field clinics that delivered food, clothing, and medical supplies to villages and border communities devastated by the civil war.
Earlier this week, an Israeli helicopter transferred humanitarian aid to the Syrian Druze community in the Sweida area of southern Syria, some 45 miles past the Israeli-Syrian border. The delivery of aid was accompanied by a warning from Israel to Syria’s new government not to harm the Druze community.
This was the first time Israel has transferred aid across the Syrian border by helicopter.
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews said they had delivered 1,500 food packages through the IDF to Christians and Druze in southern Syria and that they would soon deliver medical supplies.
Israel evacuated five more Druze who were severely wounded in Syria due to sectarian violence. They joined 10 others who were taken to Ziv Hospital in Tzfat.
One Syrian Druze man was hospitalized at Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya after injuring his back while jumping from a building to escape his attackers.
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