The Israeli military said Sunday it struck two Syrian army posts with artillery fire after rockets from the war-torn country landed in Israeli-controlled territory. But the military has returned fire when rockets or mortar shells have strayed into Israeli-controlled territory.
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Israel struck Syrian army targets on the Golan Heights on Sunday, sources on both sides said, and Israel said it was retaliating for cross-border rocket fire from the Syrian war next door.
It said that it was the result of Syria’s conflict in which various factions are fighting against the regime of President Bashar Assad, as well as each other.
There were no injuries or damages.
The IDF in April was reported to have bombed Scud missile depots manned by Hezbollah fighters and government forces in Syria’s al-Qalamoun area, on the border between Syria and Lebanon, following a series of Hezbollah advances on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
“The IDF holds the Syrian military responsible for all events stemming from its territory and will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israel’s sovereignty and the safety of its residents”, the IDF said in a statement.
So Israel’s military did what it usually does, and started attacking random Syrian military posts, with the military bragging of major damage done to three different bases in southern Syria in “retaliation” for a rocket that officials conceded they had no evidence the Syrian military fired in the first place.
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Israel seized 1,200 square kilometres (460 square miles) of the heights in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the global community.
