An Israeli tank stationed in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights opened fire on Syrian territory across the demarcation line on Thursday afternoon, an AFP journalist noted.
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The AFP journalist in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied and annexed part of Syria’s Golan, saw the armored vehicle fire two grenades after hearing three detonations around 4:45 p.m. (1:45 p.m. GMT). .
The Israeli army issued a statement saying that “(Israeli) tanks hit military infrastructure” built “in Ein Altina on Mount Hermon,” in violation of the then Israel-Syria disengagement agreement 1974 represented. After the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
Israel captured part of the Golan from Syria during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War before annexing the area in 1981. This annexation is not recognized by the United Nations.
The tank fire was followed a few hours later by an Israeli drone strike that killed two members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Golan on the Syrian side of the demarcation line, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a United Kingdom-based NGO, through an extensive network of sources in Syria.
When asked by AFP about this information, the Israeli army declined to comment.
Since the start of the war in Syria, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian territory, mainly targeting forces backed by Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah, allies of Damascus and sworn enemies of the Israeli state and the Syrian army.
But the Israeli army is generally silent on the operations in Syria attributed to it, tirelessly repeating when asked about the issue that it “cannot comment on information provided by foreign media.”
On September 14, the official Syrian press agency Sana announced the deaths of two Syrian soldiers in an Israeli attack on their positions in the west of the country.