page_title: Bashan salient
section_title: Conquest
hierarchical_section_title: Bashan salient / Conquest
caption_attribution_description: עברית: גזרת הפריצה במובלעת הסורית במלחמת יום הכיפורים בצילום מהר חרמונית. משמאל, מעל המחצבות, הכפר ג'ובתא אל חשב, גזרת הפריצה של חטיבה 188 ב-11 באוקטובר. בקצה הימני של התמונה תל שער ומתחתיו חאן ארנבה, גזרת הפריצה של אוגדה 210.
context_page_description: The Bashan Salient was a territory in Southwestern Syria which was conquered by the Israeli Army during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The salient was about twenty kilometres wide and encompassed an area of approximately 400km², extending to a point 33 kilometres from the Syrian capital of Damascus. The Salient was evacuated by the Israeli army shortly after the signing of a disengagement agreement between the Israeli and Syrian forces on May 31, 1974. The Salient included the summit of Mount Hermon, the town of Beit Jinn, and many other Syrian villages.
context_section_description: By October 11, 1973, the sixth day of the Yom Kippur War, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) contained the Syrian offensive in the Golan Heights and began a counteroffensive. The 36th division, led by Rafael Eitan, broke through the Syrian lines and passed the Purple Line, advancing to Beit Jinn. The following day, the 36th and 210th divisions continued toward Damascus while the Syrian Air Force conducted airstrikes to halt the Israeli advance. These strikes managed to slow the Israeli forces, with nine Syrian and two Israeli aircraft downed in aerial dogfights and anti-aircraft fire. An expeditionary force of the Iraqi army, which had arrived at the front a day earlier, opened a counteroffensive against two Israeli divisions in Syrian territory. The battle lasted until the following day and halted the advance of the 210th division, which had to reposition its forces to meet the Iraqi attack.
  On October 13, the Syrian air force continued its efforts to neutralize the Israeli threat to Damascus, launching more than 100 strikes on Israeli units. In some of these strikes, Syrian and Iraqi forces were hit by mistake, including ten Syrian aircraft which were lost. During this time, the 210th Israeli division ambushed Iraqi forces with some success. On the morning of October 16, a combined Syrian, Iraqi, and Jordanian armoured force attacked Israeli forces in the Salient, with the Syrians attacking from the north, the Iraqis from the east, and the 40th Jordanian armoured division from the southeast. This attack was repelled by the Israeli forces. As a result of the constant attack in an exposed Salient, the Israeli forces abandoned their plan to continue their push toward Damascus. From October 19th to 20th, the Salient perimeter experienced continuous fighting between the opposing sides.
  On the night of October 21, Israeli forces captured the Hermon outposts in a dual operation. The 1st Golani Brigade reclaimed the Israeli outpost, which had been taken by Syrian commandos on the first day of the war. At the same time, fighters of a reserve paratrooper brigade captured the Syrian outpost near the summit. This summit outpost was held until the armistice despite numerous Syrian attempts to retake it.
  The Syrians prepared for a massive counteroffensive, scheduled to occur on October 23, to drive Israeli forces out of Syria. A total of five Syrian divisions were to take part, alongside the Iraqi and Jordanian expeditionary forces. The day before the offensive was to begin, the United Nations imposed a ceasefire following the acquiescence of both Israel and Egypt. Ultimately, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad decided to cancel the offensive. On October 23, the day the offensive was to begin, Syria announced it had accepted the ceasefire and ordered its troops to cease hostilities. The Iraqi government ordered its forces home.
caption: The central area of the Salient in 2018.
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