Israeli artillery attacked Syria on Saturday evening after raising an air alarm in the part of the Golan Heights annexed by Israel after the 1967 war, the Israeli army said.
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“Following an initial report of sirens sounding in the communities of Avnei Eitan and Alma, (Israeli) artillery is now targeting the origin of the fire in Syria,” the army said in a statement.
“Two rockets were fired from Syria into Israeli territory and struck open areas,” she said in a second statement afterwards.
The army also said it was investigating the possibility of air infiltration from Lebanon.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Palestinian groups working with the Iran-backed Hezbollah on Saturday “fired a rocket at the Golan Heights, occupied from (…) the western countryside of Daraa” in southern Syria.
Israel has been on high alert on its northern borders since October 7, when Palestinian commandos attacked the south of the country on multiple fronts from the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,300 people, mostly civilians, and capturing at least 120 others in captivity in Gaza.
The strong Israeli response killed more than 2,200 people, including more than 700 children, in the Gaza Strip, a poor area controlled by Hamas.
On Saturday evening, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari warned that the army had “very significant forces in the north.” “Anyone who crosses the fence to infiltrate Israel will die,” he warned in a televised address.