Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli artillery targeted Syrian army posts Tuesday after two rockets fired from Syria hit the Israeli-occupied sector of the Syrian Golan Heights, the regime’s army said.
“In response to the rocket fire, [Israeli] artillery targeted two military posts of the Syrian Armed Forces in the central Syrian Golan Heights,” an army statement said.
The statement did not specify if the posts were hit.
Since the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011, the Golan has been tense, with an increasing number of mostly stray rockets and mortar rounds hitting the Israeli side, prompting the occasional armed response.
Israel had earlier said that two “stray” rockets hit the area of the Golan Heights it controls, without causing casualties or damage.
They were likely “stray fire from internal fighting in Syria,” the army said.
The regime said it held Syria’s army responsible for the “blatant breach” of “Israeli sovereignty,” warning it would not tolerate rockets fired across the boundary, “intentional or not”.
Israel occupied 1,200 square kilometres of the plateau in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community.
