The PIJ reportedly denied responsibility for the attack.
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But Israeli officials stressed in their remarks that the rocket fire toward Israel had been guided by Iran’s hand.
“The IDF hit both the cell that carried out the firing and the Syrian forces that made it possible”, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, said in a statement, referring to the country’s army by its acronym.
The secretary-general condemned all violations of the Disengagement of Forces Agreement and called on all concerned to refrain from any action that jeopardizes the ceasefire between Israel and Syria and undermines the stability of the area, said the statement.
The allegations, which could not be independently verified, come amid an intense Israeli campaign against the recent deal reached between world powers and Iran to curb its nuclear program.
“That is one other clear and blatant demonstration of Iran’s continued and unabating help and involvement in terrorist assaults towards Israel and the area basically”, the demarche stated. Israel’s Maariv newspaper said the Israeli strike may have killed five Islamic Jihad militants.
Israel’s army struck a target in Syria on Friday, killing at least four people, according to military and government officials.
Syrian state TV reported that “several missiles” had hit a transport centre and public building in the Height’s Quneitra area, after earlier on, rockets landed near a village in northern Israel.
Syrian state media reports said the target was a civilian vehicle and that those killed were civilians.
– August 21: An Israeli strike on the Syrian side of the Golan kills five, Syrian state television says.
Syrian TV, in the meantime, stated the air raids aimed to “increase the morale of terrorist organizations”, claiming that Israel is backing militants within the space.
In July, Syrian activists reported that an Israeli airstrike in Quneitra killed fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah movement battling alongside al-Assad’s troops. “Syrian government is responsible for attacks emanating from Syria”.
He also blamed Iran for ordering Thursday’s rocket fire, underlining Israel’s concern that a nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers had emboldened the republic. “They’ve had their differences, of course”.
A major Syrian offensive helped by Iran-backed Hezbollah to wrest back territory had failed to make inroads.
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Naylor reported from Beirut.
