Third Battle of Mount Hermon

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Third Battle of Mount Hermon
Part of the Yom Kippur War
Map of the Golan campaign.
Date October 21–22, 1973 Location Mount Hermon 33°18′16.207″N 35°47′51.220″E / 33.30450194°N 35.79756111°E / 33.30450194; 35.79756111 Result Israeli victory Territorial changes Israel recaptures Mount Hermon
Belligerents
Israel	Syria
Commanders and leaders
Amir Drori (Israeli outpost) Haim Nadel (Syrian outpost)	Ahmed Rifai al-Joju (Israeli outpost)
Strength
~400 soldiers (Israeli outpost) ~600 (Syrian outpost)	1 commando battalion (~400 soldiers)
Casualties and losses
55 killed, 79 wounded (Israeli outpost) 1 killed, 4 wounded (Syrian outpost)	Unknown killed Several captured 7 aircraft destroyed
class=notpageimage| Location within the Golan Heights

The Third Battle of Mount Hermon was fought on the night of October 21–22, 1973, between the Israeli Army and the Syrian Army over Mount Hermon, during the last days of the Yom Kippur War. Syrian troops had captured the IDF outpost on the mountain on October 6, and held it for two weeks. In the third battle, codenamed Operation Dessert (Hebrew: מבצע קינוח, Mivtza Kinu'ah), Israeli troops captured the Israeli outpost and the Syrian one.^[1]