Golan Heights: Israel Targets Syrian Position

Israeli forces attacked a Syrian military position on Wednesday. The Israeli army did not hide its artillery attack on Syria, but claimed that it had earlier been hit by a shell that had gone astray.


"In response to the projectile which hit Israel earlier today, the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) targeted an artillery position of the Syrian regime in the northern Syrian Golan Heights," a statement said, AFP reported.

The rocket was believed to be stray fire from fighting between the Syrian government forces and "rebels", it claimed.

It caused no casualties, the army said, and was "most likely a result of the internal fighting in Syria".

• The Israeli Army says it holds the Syrian government accountable for any fire from its territory, regardless of the source, but it never explains then why it helps the Nusra Front (Fatah al-Sham) terrorists and treats wounded militants at its hospitals..

Israel seized 1,200 square kilometers (460 square miles) of the Golan from Syria in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community.
  [farsnews.com]
9/11/16

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