Hadar

“Let’s not be naive,” said Hadar Harris, the Washington managing director of PEN America, which has advocated for free speech in the U.S. for more than a century.

"We have completed the mission to bring back Oron and will not rest until we also complete the mission to bring back Hadar Goldin," he added.

One of them is another soldier who was killed in combat in 2014, Lt Hadar Goldin.

An hour's drive from Damascus, on a country road into the Syrian village of Hadar, we meet Israel's army.

"Maybe they'll leave, maybe they'll stay, maybe they'll make the area safe then go away," said Riyad Zaidan, who lives in Hadar.