Gantz Warns Assad: Don't Escalate the Situation

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Via Arutz Sheva 7: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/168199#.UZyD-cq3TTs

The IDF will not allow Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to escalate the situation along Israel’s northern border, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said on Tuesday.

"If Assad will cause the situation in the Golan Heights to deteriorate, he will pay the price," Gantz said during a conference at Haifa University.

"We will not allow the Golan Heights to become a comfort space for Assad," he stressed. "If he causes a deterioration he will have to bear the consequences. I'm not a litigious person, but he must know that we will know how to protect and also how to respond if necessary."

The remarks were made hours after an incident in which Israel destroyed an unspecified Syrian target, after fire from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights border damaged an IDF vehicle.

The Syrian army claimed that it destroyed an IDF vehicle in the Golan Heights which crossed the ceasefire line. The IDF denied this but admitted that the vehicle had been damaged.

A video released by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit shows how shots were fired from Syria at an IDF patrol and how IDF forces returned fire.

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Now THIS is how you draw a line in the sand.