Israel fired on Syrian Golan Heights locations in response to rocket attacks from Syria into northern Israel. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said on Thursday that it fired artillery on several positions of the Syrian army in Golan Heights and blamed Iran-supported Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad and the Syrian government for the rocket attacks on its territories near the Lebanese border, according to AFP.
"Following today's Iran-sponsored Islamic Jihad rocket attack, the IDF targeted 14 Syrian military posts in the Golan Heights," the IDF spokesperson said in a statement on its Twitter account. "Rockets earlier today were fired by Iran funded Islamic Jihad. Syrian government is responsible for attacks emanating from Syria," the IDF said.
Update: Following today's Iran-sponsored Islamic Jihad rocket attack, the IDF targeted 14 Syrian military posts in the Golan Heights.
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) August 20, 2015
Confirmed: Rockets earlier today were fired by Iran funded Islamic Jihad. Syrian government is responsible for attacks emanating from Syria. — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) August 20, 2015
The Israeli Army said the rockets from Syria hit a village in upper Galilee, near the Lebanese border, setting off brush fires but causing no causalities.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Israeli airstrikes in Quneitra provice had caused an unknown number of causalities, reported Middle East Eye. The Israeli airstrikes hit Quneitra's transportation directorate and governorate building.
The Islamic Jihad militant group denied the allegations. "Israel is trying to divert attention from the defeat that it suffered in the face of the determination of the hero prisoner, Mohammed Allan," Dawoud Shehab, an Islamic Jihad spokesman in Gaza, told Reuters.
The Israeli attack came as the Palestinian prisoner ended a 65-day hunger strike over his detention without trial after the Israeli Supreme Court's intervention, HNGN reported Thursday.
