The Times of Israel reports: The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday announced that it had officially shuttered its “Operation Good Neighbor” program, ending over five years of humanitarian assistance that the Jewish state has given Syrian nationals near the border.
“The large and long-running humanitarian effort has come to an end with the return of the Syrian regime to southern Syria,” the army said in a statement. The military began allowing injured Syrians into Israel for medical care in early 2013, first treating them in field hospitals and later inside Israeli hospitals.
A small number of Israeli non-governmental groups were also allowed to pass humanitarian aid across the border.
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