State television quoted the source as saying the strike took place near Quneitra, close to the Israeli-occupied section of the Golan region.
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Israel said the rocket attack was launched by a group calling itself Islamic Jihad, which it said was an Iranian proxy force commanded by Saed Izadi, an Iranian.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the militant faction active in the Gaza Strip and in Syria, on which the IDF originally blamed the rocket launches, firmly denied that it had attacked Israel.
Israeli air strikes in southern Syria killed six people and wounded seven, according to reports on Friday. There has not been rocket fire from Syria at the Galilee for a long time, perhaps since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israeli media reported, and analysts said it was a potential game-changer.
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.
No one claimed responsibility for the four rockets fired into Israel from Syria.
Numerous Israeli strikes in the area have targeted members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “Islamic Jihad has no armed presence outside of Palestine”, Dawoud Shehab, a group spokesman, told Reuters news agency.
Israeli military sources believe hundreds of Hezbollah fighters, funded and directed by Tehran, are in the area, and Israel has carried out a number of airstrikes against them this year. The strikes hit two local government buildings but caused only material damage, it said.
Though Israel has no plans to “escalate” the situation, Netanyahu’s office will uphold its policy.
Israeli Army Radio said that its military is on high alert and mobilized troops on its northern border with Syria.
At least four rockets struck areas in northern Israel on Thursday, prompting retaliation by Israeli forces.
Because the rocket hearth, Israel has named Saeed Izaadhi, who it says heads the Palestinian division of Iran’s elite Quds Pressure, as having orchestrated the assault however has produced no proof to again that declare.
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Israel captured the western Golan in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it, a move not recognized internationally.
