The Israeli Army attacked positions in southern Syria this Sunday with artillery and by air after they were launched from that area six rockets in two batches, of which three crossed into Israeli territory. “Israeli warplanes struck additional targets on Syrian territory, including a military complex of the Fourth Division of the Syrian Armed Forces, military radar systems and artillery posts used by the Syrian Armed Forces,” a spokesperson said in a statement. Israeli military.
Previously, Israeli troops attacked the posts from which the rockets were fired with artillery from the border and with droneswhich were the first fired from Syria at Israel since 2019 and come two days after Palestinian militias launched some thirty projectiles from southern Lebanon and more than a dozen from Gaza.
Israel also responded by rocketing Hamas targets both in the strip and in southern Lebanon, from where the biggest attack on that border was carried out since 2006, when Israeli troops waged a month-long war with the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah. , an ally of its enemy Iran. According to Syrian media, Israeli aircraft also bombarded near Damascus, attacks that have been common in recent years.
“The Israeli Armed Forces see the State of Syria as responsible for all activities that occur within its territory and will not allow any attempt to violate Israeli sovereignty,” said the Israeli Army, a country that maintains strong hostility with the Syrian government. of Bashar al-Assad.
On Saturday night, a first batch of three rockets had been launched from Syria into Israel, although only one crossed into Israeli territory, hitting an unpopulated area.. A second round of three rockets was fired hours later, at dawn, of which one was intercepted by the anti-missile system and another landed in uninhabited areas. The rockets set off alarms in various locations on the Golan Heights, a Syrian territory occupied by Israel in 1967 and annexed in 1981.