Syria’s official SANA news agency said an Israeli woman accidentally entered the country through the Quneitra crossing and has been arrested.
The Times of Israel reports that Israel is negotiating a prisoner swap for the woman, which is being coordinated by Russia. Two prisoners incarcerated in Israel may be exchanged for the woman.
The woman has not been identified. According to Channel 12, she is a 25-year-old formerly Haredi woman from Modi’in Ilit who left the community. It is not clear why she crossed into Syrian territory.
“The exchange is taking place through Russian mediation to liberate Nihal Al-Maqt and Dhiyab Qahmuz, two Syrian prisoners from the occupied Syrian Golan, in an exchange during which a young Israeli woman who entered the Syrian territories accidentally will be released. She entered the Quneitra region by mistake and was arrested by the Syrian authorities.”
