The salient was about twenty kilometres wide and encompassed an area of approximately 400km2, extending to a point 33 kilometres from the Syrian capital of Damascus.[1] The Salient was evacuated by the Israeli army shortly after the signing of a disengagement agreement between the Israeli and Syrian forces on May 31, 1974. The Salient included the summit of Mount Hermon, the town of Beit Jinn, and many other Syrian villages.