Refugees from Syria's civil war will be prevented from crossing into Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed, a day after seven men injured in the fighting were allowed passage and treated in an Israeli hospital.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to prevent Syrian refugees crossing into the country. Photo: RONEN ZVULUN/EPA
By Robert Tait, Jerusalem
6:00PM GMT 17 Feb 2013
The men were allowed to cross Israel's frontier with Syria on the Golan Heights after signalling to Israeli soldiers that they were wounded. Troops administered emergency first aid treatment before taking them to Ziv Medical Centre in the northern Israeli town of Safed, where they were detained overnight.
It is believed to be the first time casualties from Syria's two-year conflict have been treated in Israel.
Mr Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, however said such facilities would only be extended in "exceptional cases" in future.
"Yesterday, we saw that the fighting is also approaching our border," he said. "We will continue to guard our border and prevent passage and entry to Israel, except for exceptional, isolated cases, every one will be considered on its merits."
It is not known if the men were rebel fighters or belong to forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
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One was described as being "severely" wounded and was being kept in intensive care, Dr Oscar Embon, director of the Ziv Medical Centre said. Israeli officials have repeatedly voiced fears about the security of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, amid fears that it could fall into the hands of militant Islamists fighting Mr Assad's regime or the Lebanese group, Hizbollah.
Separately, at least one Hizbollah guerrilla and five Syrian rebels were killed on Syrian territory near the border with Lebanon, local residents and Syrian opposition sources said on Sunday.
Hadi al-Abdallah of the Syrian Revolution General Commission said fighting broke out on Saturday after Lebanese Hizbollah fighters, who control eight Syrian border villages, tried to move into three adjacent villages held by the rebel Syrian Free Army. The events prompted the opposition Syrian National Council to accuse Hizbollah of entering the conflict on Mr Assad's side.
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