(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by allied militias took strategic hilltop in southwestern Syria after four years of rebels control, field sources told Zaman al-Wasl.
Capture of Tel al-Harra followed the regime control the town of al-Harra,a strategic territory near the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights.
As regime forces press new advances in southwestern Syria, the Russian airstrikes killed Tuesday 13 civilians, including 8 children.
The strikes targeted a school in the town of Ayn al-Tineh that hosts tens of displaced families who fled bombing to Golan Heights villages in Quneitra province.
30 more civilians have been wounded in the Russian attack.
Meanwhile, the Israeli border guards sent back dozens of refugees who approached the border fence with Golan Heights, according to the Israeli military.
“Around 200 Syrians approached the border fence, but were dispersed,” military spokesman Avichay Adraee told Turkey's Anadolu Agency.
Local media said the refugees, some of whom carried white clothes, walked toward the border fence and were stopped some 200 meters away from the fence.
According to Israeli daily Haaretz, an Israeli soldier shouted at the refugees to “go back”.
Thousands of Syrian refugees have fled toward Golan Heights over a wide-scale offensive launched by regime forces to recapture the southwestern Daraa province from opposition groups.
Last month, a senior Israeli official said Israel would not allow “a single refugee” to enter Israeli territory but was prepared to offer humanitarian assistance.
Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected ferocity.
The UN estimates that more than 400,000 people have been killed and millions have fled their homes since the conflict began with anti-Assad protests. (Zaman Al Wasl, AA)
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