Third Battle of Mount Hermon
| Third Battle of Mount Hermon | |||||||||
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| Part of the Yom Kippur War | |||||||||
Israeli soldiers during the battle | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Israel | Syria | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Amir Drori (Israeli outpost) Haim Nadel (Syrian outpost) |
Ahmed Rifai al-Joju (Israeli outpost) Mustafa Sharba | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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~400 soldiers (Israeli outpost) ~600 (Syrian outpost) | 1 commando battalion (~400 soldiers) | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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56 killed 83 wounded |
120 killed 100 wounded Several captured 7 aircraft destroyed | ||||||||
Location within the Golan Heights | |||||||||
The Third Battle of Mount Hermon was fought on the night of October 21–22, 1973, between the Israeli Army and the Syrian Army over Mount Hermon, during the last days of the Yom Kippur War. Syrian troops had captured the IDF outpost on the mountain on October 6, and held it for two weeks. In the third battle, codenamed Operation Dessert (Hebrew: מבצע קינוח, Mivtza Kinu'ah), Israeli troops captured the Israeli outpost and the Syrian one.