IDF says elite forces carry out rare cross-border raid from Syrian Hermon to southern Lebanon The Israeli military says elite forces conducted a rare cross-border raid from Syria into Lebanon as part of efforts to prevent the entrenchment of terror organizations in the area. Reservists of the Alpinist Unit, operating under the 810th "Mountains" Regional Brigade, "operated in complex mountainous terrain and crossed, by climbing through snow, from the Syrian Hermon to the Mount Dov area in