Hi,
As part of the moving around and different missions, we had been to the Booster today. The Booster is a ridge of small volcanoes in Northern Golan Heights
The name comes from the water booster the Syrian built here ro pump to water towards the main urban center of Syria and the capital city – Damascus. Needless to say the, but the pump and the line are no longer working since Israel had conquered Golan Heights on the Six Day war (on 1967).
The ridge contains two main hills: Dahart Ibrahim and Tel El-Mahfi. It is part of the Israeli Golan Heights dormant volcano line, and as so, it is used as a defense line.
North of the ridge, there is a flat area which became the site of a heroic and major battle during the Yom Kippor war (on 1973), and it since refereed to as the valley of tears.
The cease-fire continues today as well, after 12 more hostages that had been released yesterday (two of them are Russian women that were released by Hamas as a gesture to Putin).
At the moment, the cease-fire kind of lasts, but it does not seem to continue as Hamas claims it can not find more hostages to be released. It probably means there are no more kids or women he wishes to release, and there are only soldiers and men.
10 more hostages are to be released today, 2 with Russian citizenship. And still – 3 civilians were killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem, a missile was launched from Lebanon, and 3 terrorists were killed in Gaza strip
Take Care
Gad
7 women and 5 teens that had been released yesterday (the two Russian women, bottom left, were released by Hamas as a gesture to Putin)
Mount Hermon from the Booster ridge, the snowy part is the Syrian Hermon and the mount summit. The Israeli Hermon ends about the middle of the picture, where you can see an army post.
Hotel Hermon, the UN post on Mount Hermon summit
The Syrian line of dormant volcanoes
The Israeli-Syrian border: the fence and the line of barrels that mark the line that can not be crossed by Syrian civilians (they are looking for Tuber)
The sunrise from the booster
The valley of tears north of the Booster ridge