A Syrian mayor told AFP he had meetings with Israeli officers as the military conducted incursions in his village inside a Golan Heights buffer zone, saying they had demanded locals relinquish their weapons. During his latest meeting with the Israelis on Sunday, "we told them that we no longer had any weapons and that if we had any, we would hand them over to the Syrian government", said Mreiwel.

A theory of the site was that its walls and entrances aligned with astronomical bodies, but as the site has shifted from its original position, it does not correspond to celestial observations