Something must have gotten lost in the translation. Israel controls the Israeli/Syrian border. Just ask the dumbass who let loose the mortars with the bad aim. Virgin Call! The notion that anyone in Syria has anything to say about what/who crosses that gate is silly. And technically it’s the Golan/Syria crossing anyway. I’m not sure if the Israelis have finished annexing Golan yet but they need to get it done PDQ——all the way to Bekaa.
Ah.
actually there is a no-man’s land called the Purple Zone between Israel and Syria that is patrolled by the UN.
The gate referred to would be on the Syrian side of the Purple Zone. At Quneitra the zone is not very wide since the
site of the town was returned to Syrian control after the Yom Kippur war, so its quite possible that an exposed person would be hit by gunfire from Syria (stray or otherwise)..