In the video: an Israeli tank.
Filmed in Syria around 1986 (Walla system!)
One of the most famous battles known to the IDF in history was the Battle of Sultan Ya'akov in the First Lebanon War, the same battle in which twenty IDF soldiers were killed and more than thirty wounded.
In that battle, two soldiers were captured and three were declared missing: Yehuda Katz, Zvi Feldman and Zachariah Baumel, whose body was recovered four years ago.
Four decades later, an Israeli citizen recently received photos from the morning after the bloody battle showing Israeli tanks left in the perimeter field and taken as loot by the Syrian army.
Most of the photos were taken by Ziad Al Homsi, who was an officer in the Lebanese army starting in the 1970s and also during the Lebanon War in 1982.
During the war, he was in the Bekaa region, where the battle of Sultan Ya'akov took place on the night of June 10 and the morning of June 11, 1982. The battle was held as part of an Israeli effort to reach the Beirut-Damascus road, before entering into a cease-fire attack on the sixth day of the war.
The Israeli armored force found itself trapped inside a large Syrian compound and a battle ensued that lasted eight hours.
At the end of the battle, the IDF forces were forced to withdraw. The results, as mentioned, were severe, and only four years ago was Baumel's body recovered while Zvi Feldman and Yehuda Katz were still declared missing. Just last weekend, Miriam Baumel, Zakaria's mother, who fought for years for the Sabbath, passed away. her son and his friends.
Yoni Dinor is a tour guide and tourist guide. In his spare time, he spends long hours in virtual "journeys" on social networks, mainly from Egypt and Syria. Dinor studied Middle Eastern studies and knows Arabic. In his searches, he is mainly interested in materials related to the Yom Kippur and First Lebanon wars. Sometimes He manages to make contact with citizens in the neighboring countries and receives from them materials from which it is possible to learn about the battles from the enemy's point of view.
Thus, for example, he received material filmed by a Syrian filmmaker at the Hermon outpost, after it was occupied by the Syrian army in the Yom Kippur War.
In another case he made contact with a man who was a pilot in the Syrian Air Force who was captured by Israel.
Dinor even managed to locate the Israeli who kept the helmet of that pilot all these years.
Alhamsi holds a standard marking flag of an armored corps near an abandoned military base in Syria (photo: Walla! system, no)
Sultan will follow in the morning after the battle in Syria (photo: Walla! system, without)
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Al-Homsi arrived at the battlefield after the withdrawal of the Israeli forces and photographed damaged and intact Israeli tanks, including tanks being transported from the scene.
Dinor also recently located a video in which an Israeli armored personnel carrier tank is seen, like the ones taken as loot by the Syrians in Sultan Yaqoob. The origin of the video is in Syria. According to him, it was taken between the years 1988-1984.
Among the photos that Dinor found were also photos taken the day before the Battle of Sultan Yaqoob. This is the day on which the Israeli Air Force's "Operation Arzab" was conducted to destroy surface-to-air missile batteries placed by the Syrians in the Lebanon Valley. This is a warning operation, in which the Air Force pilots destroyed all 19 missile batteries and shot down 23 Syrian fighter jets, without a single hit to an Israeli plane. In the photos A Syrian MiG-23 plane that was damaged in the battle is seen and a photo showing a mushroom of smoke from the bombing area.
An Israeli tank in Syria (photo: Walla! system, no)
An Israeli tank in Syria (photo: Walla! system, no)
A tank in Syrian territory (photo: Walla! system, no)
Ziad Al Homsi, who took most of the photos, made headlines 15 years ago after he was arrested in Lebanon on suspicion of being recruited by the Israeli Mossad.
The claim was that given his familiarity with the Battle of Sultan Ya'akov, he would be able to help Israel obtain information about the missing Israelis.
At that time it was announced that he was exposed due to a mistake made by Mossad agent Ben Zigier.
According to the same version, Zighier revealed the name of al-Khomsi while trying to recruit a Lebanese source.
It was also claimed at the time that this was the reason for Zigier's arrest, who ended his life in prison in December 2010.
Celebrating after the battle in Sultan Yaakov (photo: Walla! system, without)
A MiG-23 plane is shot down during the battle (photo: Walla! system, no)
Mushrooms of smoke on the day the Syrian anti-aircraft batteries were bombed on June 9, 1982 (photo: Walla! system, without)
Katyusha firing by the Syrian army (photo: Walla! system, without)
An Israeli tank that was looted by the Syrian army (photo: Walla! system, no)
Yoni Dinor (photo: Walla! system, without)
Al Homsi sat in prison in Lebanon for three years and after his release reintegrated into Lebanese society.
"In recent years, perhaps as an attempt to improve his image and present himself as a victim, he began to show pictures of Sultan Yaakov in a book he published in Lebanon and in various other places," says Dinor.
"That's how I came to the photos, the vast majority of which have never been published in Israel, it is likely that they were known to Israeli intelligence."
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