The military said Saturday that it hit Syrian artillery positions after the projectile landed in the northern Golan Heights.
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Errant fire from the fighting in Syria has occasionally been spilling over to Israel, usually causing no casualties or damage.
The Israel Air Force hit several military targets in Syria after mortar shells breached the border and exploded in the northern Golan Heights on Wednesday, said the IDF.
Israeli officials have repeatedly said that they see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as responsible for any shooting, intentional or accidental, from Syria territory into Israel.
The Golan Heights is a disputed area on the Israeli-Syrian border.
Tens of illegal settlements have been built in the area over the years while the regime in Tel Aviv has used the area to launch attacks against the Syrian government and its allies.
It was the third such incident in six days, and came soon after Russian Federation and the U.S. announced a deal on a new Syrian ceasefire, set to come into force on Monday.
Israel has largely stayed on the sidelines of Syria’s civil war, keeping watch over the Golan Heights frontier and occasionally carrying out air strikes or returning mortar fire if there is a specific threat.
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Since the signing of a 1974 disengagement agreement between Syria and Israel, a cease-fire line has separated the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from a Syria-administered buffer zone.
