LONDON — Islamist opposition fighters in Syria,
including members of an Al Qaeda affiliate, took
control of the Quneitra crossing point on the
demarcation line with the Israeli-occupied Golan
Heights, activists said on Wednesday.
The move could bring Islamist forces within 200
yards of territory controlled by Israel. An activist
in the area, contacted by Skype, said a coalition
of Islamists, including members of the Qaeda-
linked Nusra Front, opened an assault on the
government-held crossing early Wednesday. The
status of a United Nations force that is supposed
to monitor the crossing point was unclear.
Militants with a rival and more extreme Sunni
militant group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,
have spread from Syria and now threaten
northern and central Iraq.
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The Israeli military said one soldier and an Israeli
civilian were wounded by “errant fire” from the
clashes at Quneitra on Wednesday, prompting an
artillery barrage against two Syrian Army
positions in the Golan Heights — the latest of
several occasions when Syria’s civil war has
spilled into Israel, prompting retaliation. Israel has
said it has no interest in further involvement in
the fighting.
The Syria conflict is now in its fourth year with an
estimated death toll in excess of 190,000 .
Israeli troops saw large plumes of smoke as
gunfire and explosions rattled the area, news
reports said.
Yaakov Amidror, a former Israeli national security
adviser, said reports of the Nusra Front taking
control of the Quneitra crossing could be “very
significant” if the group managed to link that
position to its stronghold in Dara’a, in southern
Syria, and other areas.
But Mr. Amidror, who served under Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel should not
interfere in the conflict and should respond only if
attacked or to provide humanitarian assistance to
wounded people on the demarcation line.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an
activist group based in Britain that gathers
information from contacts inside Syria, said the
fighting killed at least 20 government soldiers and
an unknown number of the attackers.
Syria lost the strategic Golan Heights to Israel in
the 1967 war. Israel later annexed the area, but
left Quneitra. It has since been depicted by the
authorities in Damascus as an emblem of Israeli
expansion and remains in ruins
.
Although the town has little strategic value,
insurgents have been fighting to drive off
government forces for more than a year, said Abu
Mossab, another activist in the region.
Accounts of the fighting were unclear, but some
activists said members of the Western-backed
and secular Free Syrian Army were also involved
in the assault. Clashes were reported from several
locations after rebel forces set out from a village
they seized in May.
Earlier this year, the leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman
al-Zawahiri, ordered ISIS forces to leave
operations in Syria to the Nusra Front.
ISIS ignored the call, and on Sunday its forces
took over a military base in northern Syria,
cementing its control of its self-declared Islamic
State spanning the Syria-Iraq border. A day later,
Syria’s foreign minister said his government was
ready to cooperate with international efforts to
confront ISIS.

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Hmm, ISIS out of control. Good thing Israel is nnot getting involved.