The IDF says it has attacked a Syrian Army launch site near Israel’s border in the Golan Heights, after a Syrian mortar landed in Israeli territory.
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According to Israeli army officials, an errant fire from ongoing fighting between Syrian factions hit inside Israeli territory.
Since the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011, the Golan Heights have been tense, with a growing number of mostly stray rockets and mortar rounds hitting the Israeli side, prompting the occasional armed response.
No injuries or damage were reported in the incident and there were no warning sirens as the shelling clearly fell in an open area. “IAF targeted Syrian Army launcher in Syrian Golan Heights, in response”, he said, referring to the attack by the Israeli Air Force.
In June, the Syrian army said that Israel had struck one if its military posts near Homs.
Israel had occupied the southern Golan Heights in 1967 and annexed it in 1981.
Israel has also been responsible for several airstrikes in Syria in the past several years, allegedly targeting convoys carrying weapons from Iran and Syria to the Lebanese Hezbollah militant organization, a staunch enemy of Israel.
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Some argued that the latest attack on Gaza was “muscle flexing” by new far-right and anti-Arab Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman just two months after he was appointed.
