The Israeli military introduced early Sunday it was “currently striking” an space in Syria from which rockets have been fired the evening earlier than.
“The strike was carried out in response to the rockets fired towards Israeli territory,” the military stated in a brief assertion.
It added that it had additionally used a drone to focus on the plane from which the rockets have been fired.
In complete, six rockets have been fired from Syria, with a few of them touchdown within the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the military stated, including that warning sirens sounded in a number of areas.
Israel seized 1,200 sq. kilometers (460 sq. miles) of the Golan Heights from Syria within the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a transfer that was by no means acknowledged by the worldwide group.
Saturday and Sunday’s exchanges of fireside come after an escalation in violence within the area.
On Wednesday, Israeli riot police stormed the prayer corridor of Al-Aqsa mosque in a pre-dawn raid aiming to dislodge “law-breaking youths and masked agitators” they stated had barricaded themselves inside.
On Thursday, greater than 30 rockets have been fired from Lebanese soil into Israel, which the Israeli military blamed on Palestinian teams.
The military then retaliated by finishing up strikes in Gaza and southern Lebanon. —Agence France-Presse
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