TEL AVIV (dpa-AFX) – According to the Israeli military, a rocket was fired from Syria at the Golan Heights on Sunday. Another missile from the neighboring country landed in an open area, the Israeli army said. In both cases, Israel attacked the locations from which the projectiles were fired. There were initially no reports of injuries.
According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, militias working with Hezbollah in Lebanon fired a projectile from Syria towards the Israeli-occupied part of the Golan Heights.
Since the beginning of the Gaza war after the Hamas massacre in Israel on October 7, there have been repeated confrontations between the Israeli army and militias such as Hezbollah on Israel’s northern borders. The pro-Iranian group has ties to the Islamist Hamas, but is considered more influential and powerful.
Hezbollah and Iran are also allies of the Syrian government. To prevent Israel’s arch-enemy Iran and its allied militias from expanding their military influence in the wake of the civil war in Syria, Israel’s air force frequently bombs targets in the neighboring country./raf/le/cir/DP/zb