Nearly every night, Israeli special ops forces secretly rescue wounded fighters in Syria, among them jihadists, as seen in dramatic footage the Daily Mail captured while embedded with the military force.

The Daily Mail reported that the secret nighttime missions have saved more than 2,000 people since 2013, some of them members of Al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria.

The Daily Mail described the dramatic rescue scene:

Under cover of darkness, an Israeli armoured car advances down the potholed road that leads to Syria.

As it crests a small hill, the driver picks up the radio handset and tells his commanding officer that the border is in sight.

He kills the engine. Ten heavily-armed commandos jump out and take cover, watching for signs of ambush. Then five of them move up to the 12ft chainlink fence that marks the limit of Israeli-held territory.

On the other side, on the very edge of Syria, lies an unconscious man wrapped like a doll in a blood-drenched duvet. The commandos unlock the fence, open a section of it and drag him onto the occupied Golan Heights.

The man — whom the Daily Mail described as an Islamist militant about age 20 — had been shot in the intestines and liver. The Israeli rescue squad put him on a stretcher then in an armored vehicle to send to an Israeli hospital.

 

Chaos: Alongside the fence with Israel numerous groups battle in Syria, including Hezbollah, Government troops, rebels and ISIS