MAJDAL SHAMS: Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon pledged Tuesday to track down Druze rioters in the occupied Golan Heights responsible for the “lynching” of a wounded Syrian being transported to a hospital.

Two Syrian men were being taken to hospital late Monday when dozens of Druze in the town of Majdal Shams stoned their ambulance, forcing it to stop and dragging the wounded men from the vehicle.

The mob then beat one of the men, who was later pronounced dead, and seriously wounded the other. An Israeli soldier and another officer with the ambulance were also lightly wounded.

Yaalon labelled Monday’s violence a “lynching” and vowed action.

“We won’t be able to ignore it, and law enforcement authorities will deal with it heavy-handedly,” he said in a statement.

Syria’s official news agency SANA stated the two men being transported on Monday were “terrorists from Al-Nusra Front.”

“The claim we’re helping Al-Nusra Front is incorrect,” military spokesman Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz told army radio, referring to Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria.

“We don’t (give medical care) according to race or color or religion, rather we give the humanitarian life-saving help to whoever reaches the border and asks for help,” army spokesman Major Arye Shalicar told AFP.