The Defense Ministry says it is carrying out activities to clear explosives from an area of the Golan Heights near the Syrian border today.
Crews are being deployed to areas around the community of Ein Zivan to clear mines and other unexploded ordnance in the ground there. “As part of the planned operations, blasts from explosions will be heard and clouds of smoke will be seen in the area,” the Defense Ministry says.
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Source: Times of Israel News
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