Most of the outpost’s positions were destroyed, including the large supply of drinking water. The war started that day with a barrage of artillery on the IDF outpost. There was a small tank company nearby to aid the men in repelling any ground attack from Syria. The platoon’s main job was to observe Syrian activities on the Syrian side of the Golan. The outpost consisted of a series of bunkers with observation points and gun positions. Amos was a mortar man and he reported to Avraham Elimelech, the platoon commander. Amos and his fellow soldiers were from Battalion 13 of the Golani brigade. It was next to Quneitra in the Golan Heights. Outpost 107, code-named ‘Portugal’ was the closest IDF outpost to Syria in 1973. They fought for 100 hours straight against an overpowering enemy and unrelenting firepower, and survived. Amos* and eighteen of his fellow IDF soldiers were spending Yom Kippur just meters away from the Syrian border when the 1973 war broke out.
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