Israel says it will hit targets in Syrian territory in response to rocket fire – CNN

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Israel says it is striking targets in Syrian territory after three rockets were launched from Syria on Saturday.

One of the rocks landed in the southern Golan Heights, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. The IDF said there was no need to intercept the bike Twitter.

“There was a response today in Israel before the airstrikes from Syria, the IDF Artillery now hit the territory of Syria,” the Israel Defense Forces said on Twitter local time on Saturday evening.

The IDF said that the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle or drone) was “just the strikes in Syria from which rockets were launched into Israeli territory earlier tonight.”

In a previous vote, the IDF had said sirens were “blaring in northern Israel”.

The IDF suffered no damage from the missiles.

Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and added a narrow strip of land in 1981. The borders of the Golan Heights are held under international law and Security Council resolutions.

The news comes after Israel struck Palestinian militant targets in southern Lebanon and Gaza early Friday, after dozens of rocks were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory.

The rocket launch comes amid heightened tensions in the region following Israeli police raids on the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

Israeli police raids on mosques are considered a major aggravation by Muslims.

Israeli police raided the mosque twice on Wednesday last week, claiming that “hundreds of extremists and desecrators of the mosque” had barred themselves inside.

On Saturday night, the Israeli police again stated that “many young people” [had] they entered the mosque and closed the doors without reason.

Jordan next warned Israel of “catastrophic consequences” if Israeli forces stormed the mosque again.

If the Israeli authorities, “to attack the colonists again, in an attempt to evacuate” [the mosque] worshipers, in preparation for major incursions into the mosque”, “to push things to greater tension and violence, for which everyone will pay the price”, the spokesperson of the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sinan al-Majali, said late on Saturday.

“The leadership of Israel bears the responsibility in Jerusalem and in all the occupied Palestinian territories for the spread and for the deterioration that worsens except for its raids on the holy al-Aqsa mosque … and its terror of worshipers in these holy days.” al-Majali said.

The warning from Jordan was followed by a statement from Israel’s Foreign Ministry early on Sunday, saying those people were “blocking themselves in the middle. [the al-Aqsa mosque] They are a dangerous group, inspired and incited by Hamas and other terrorist organizations.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry called on the Jordanian Waqf custodians, “to immediately remove from al-Aqsa Mosque these extremists who are planning to riot during the Muslim prayers on the Temple Mount and the Western Wall Blessing (on Sunday).

The Waqf is a Jordanian-established body that manages the al-Aqsa mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount.

In a separate development on Saturday night, the IDF killed a 20-year-old Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank town of Azzoun Bank, according to the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health.

The man, Ayed Azam Salim, was shot and killed by live Israeli bullets in the abdomen and chest in the Qalqilya region, according to the ministry.

“Following the exercise, many suspected explosives were thrown towards IDF soldiers near the town of Azzun,” the IDF said in a statement. The soldiers responded “when you live against them” and the man was hit, the statement added. No IDF soldiers were injured, it is said.

Salim was taken to a hospital in Qalqilya where he died according to the Palestinian News Agency WAFA.

On Friday, one person was killed and seven others were injured in a car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv. Police said the car was driven by a 45-year-old resident of Kfar Kasem, a predominantly Arab city east of Tel Aviv.

The victim, an Italian tourist, was named by the Israeli and Italian authors Alessandro Parini. Italian media said he was a 35-year-old lawyer. Israeli authorities described the incident as a “terror attack”.