The Israeli army attacked positions in southern Syria yesterday morning with artillery and by air after six rockets were launched from that area in two bursts, three of which crossed Israeli territory. "Israeli warplanes attacked additional targets in Syrian territory, including a military complex of the fourth division of the Syrian armed forces, military radar systems and artillery sites used by the Syrian armed forces," it reported. an Israeli military spokesman.
Earlier, Israeli troops attacked with artillery and drones the sites from which the rockets were fired, the first fired from Syria at Israel since 2019, and come two days after Palestinian militias fired about 30 projectiles from from southern Lebanon and more than a dozen from Gaza.
Israel also responded by bombing Hamas targets in both the Strip and southern Lebanon, from where it was launched in the biggest attack on that border since 2006, when Israeli troops waged a month-long war with the Lebanese Shia group Hizbullah. According to Syrian media, the Israeli air force also bombed near Damascus, attacks that are common in recent years and that Israel has intensified over the last month; the last one, this Tuesday, which left two civilians dead.
On Sunday night, a first round of three rockets was fired from Syria, although only one crossed into Israeli territory and hit a depopulated area. A second round of three rockets was fired hours later, of which two crossed: one was intercepted by the anti-missile system and the other fell in uninhabited areas. The rockets set off alarms in the Golan Heights, Syrian territory occupied by Israel in 1967 and annexed in 1981.
The exchange of fire on the northern border takes place in the context of an upsurge in violence, with Palestinian attacks - which have left three dead in two days - and clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian worshipers at the mosque of Al -Aqsa, in the occupied east of Jerusalem, during Ramadan.
