Israeli military cellphone listed as classified was reported missing after clashes on Syrian frontier, and was later surfaced in a Syrian village.By World Israel News StaffA classified Israeli military cellphone was lost during a clash in southern Syria and taken by a local resident, Israeli media reported Tuesday, turning an already volatile confrontation near the village of Abdin into a new security embarrassment for the Israel Defense Forces.The incident unfolded after shots were fired toward Israeli troops stationed at a post near Tel Qudna in the Israeli-held buffer zone in southern Syria, according to the IDF.The military said no Israeli soldiers were hurt and that forces responded with mortars, artillery and an attack helicopter strike. Syrian reports said the Israeli fire hit the village of Abdin in western Daraa province, sending residents fleeing to nearby communities.Ynet reported that during the incident, an Israeli reservist lost a classified military phone, which was later picked up by a Syrian resident.Syrian channels subsequently circulated footage of the device along with images of other items allegedly left behind by Israeli troops after they withdrew.The IDF told Ynet, without detailing what steps were taken to prevent information from leaking from the phone, that “the incident is known and being investigated, and is being handled through the relevant channels.”The confrontation began amid a broader pattern of Israeli patrols and incursions in the area following Israel’s seizure of the UN-patrolled buffer zone after the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in December 2024.Israeli officials initially described the move as temporary, but senior Israeli officials have since said troops will remain in security zones in Syria, Lebanon and Gaza “without any time limit.”Residents of Abdin said Israeli forces regularly enter the village and that Sunday’s incursion quickly escalated.AP reported that residents blocked roads with rocks and that some young men and boys threw stones at the Israeli patrol.Residents said Israeli troops fired warning shots before artillery rounds were fired at the village, prompting most residents to flee.Video and photographs from the area showed residents placing rocks in the path of Israeli forces. A Syrian reporter quoted by Ynet wrote that the villagers were sending a message:“This land does not grant invaders safe passage. These people do not accept or tolerate invasions. Even the children collected whatever they could find and placed stones in the path of the invading Israeli forces, as if to say: your passage will not go unanswered.”The IDF’s account differed sharply from Syrian descriptions of the event. Israeli officials said the military response followed gunfire at one of its posts.The Times of Israel reported that the confrontation came a day after the IDF said it had killed two terrorist gunmen inside the Israeli-held buffer zone who were approaching Israel from near the Druze town of Hader.Syria’s Foreign Ministry condemned the two incidents “in the strongest terms,” and warned that Israel’s “aggressive practices” were undermining efforts by the new Syrian authorities to consolidate security and stability after years of civil war.The post Classified IDF phone lost winds up in Syrian village appeared first on World Israel News.