Report: IDF bars journalists from Golan maneuvers

The IDF is conducting military maneuvers on the Golan Heights that foreign journalists are not permitted to cover, the Arab newspaper Al-Hiyat reported Saturday. Al-Hiyat also reported that Israel was "concerned" over Syria's removal of military checkpoints on the way to Kuneitra, on the Syrian side of the Golan, that had been in place for the last 40 years.