The exercise, attended by the commanders of both countries' navies, highlights the growing military cooperation between Jerusalem and Athens and could also be interpreted as a signal to Ankara.
"There are 2,000 remaining, and we will get to every last one of them," Maj.-Gen. Shlomi Binder, head of the IDF's Military Intelligence, told the security cabinet on Sunday evening.
The vehicle subsequently accelerated toward the troops' vehicle and struck it, according to the military. No IDF soldiers were wounded in the incident.
On Sunday evening, troops from the 2nd "Carmeli" Brigade, who were manning outposts in the Syrian buffer zone, spotted a suspect approaching the post between the villages of Hader and Kuneitra.
Under the changes, the IDF will base its readiness on what its enemies are capable of doing rather than assessments of what they intend to do
The IDF said Qaisi infiltrated Israel on October 7 and later used his role in a Turkish aid organization to support Hamas terrorists and fundraising efforts.
During the closure, passage through crossings in the West Bank will be permitted only in humanitarian, medical, and other exceptional cases, subject to COGAT approval.
