Jerusalem (EFE).- The Israeli Army attacked positions in southern Syria this morning with artillery and by air after six rockets were launched from that area in two batches, three of which 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 with artillery from the border and with drones the posts from where the rockets were launched, which were the first fired from Syria at Israel since 2019 and come two days after Palestinian militias launched some thirty projectiles from the 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 aviation also bombarded near Damascus, attacks that are common in recent years and that Israel has intensified in the last month, the most recent on Tuesday in the suburbs of the capital, leaving two civilian deaths.
“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 regime. of Bashar al Asad, also an ally of Iran.
Last night, a first batch of three rockets was launched from Syria into Israel, although only one crossed into Israeli territory, hitting an unpopulated area; and a second round of three rockets was fired hours later, at dawn, of which two crossed, one intercepted by the anti-missile system and another landing 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.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based NGO with a wide network of partners on the ground, the rockets were launched from the province of Quneitra, adjacent to the Golan Heights, which is controlled by the Syrian government and has a growing presence of allied pro-Iranian militias, as well as a deployment of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah.
For years, Israel has frequently attacked the positions of all these groups and militias, in a hidden war against Iran on Syrian soil that it never reports on and that it carries out with the connivance of Russia, an ally of the Syrian government, and with military bases. in that country.
The exchange of fire on the northern border occurs within the framework of an upsurge in violence in the region, with several Palestinian attacks -which have left three dead in two days-, and clashes between the Israeli Police and Palestinian faithful in the holy mosque of Al Aqsa, in occupied east Jerusalem, during the month of Ramadan.
