IDF kills two armed terrorists infiltrating southern Syria buffer zone near Hader

Reservists of the Etzioni Brigade spotted two armed terrorists approaching the border fence from the Druze town of Hader, about a kilometer inside Israel's southern Syria buffer zone. Soldiers opened fire and killed both, and their bodies were recovered for identification. The IDF maintains the buffer zone, established after Assad's fall, to keep Iranian proxies, Hezbollah cells and jihadist groups from re-entrenching on the Golan frontier; this is a rare direct engagement in an area Israel has otherwise stabilized through deterrent strikes.