ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A suspected Israeli strike targeted the countryside of Daraa province, southwest of the country, a war monitor reported on Friday.
The UK-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that Israel shelled a site near Adawan village and the town of Tasil in the Daraa countryside. There is no immediate information regarding the extent of casualties.
The strike was in response to Syria firing a “single rocket” targeting Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights, according to SOHR.
Neither the Syrian army nor the IDF has commented on the strike so far.
Israel captured Syria’s Golan Heights in 1967 during the Six-Day War and annexed it in 1981. The United Nations does not recognize the annexation of the area.
The occupied Golan Heights have often been used by Israel as a launching base for airstrikes against Syria. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on regime-controlled areas of Syria throughout its 11-year civil war, often claiming to strike pro-Iran militias, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah which supports the Syrian army.
While Israel rarely comments on strikes attributed to it in Syria, it has repeatedly warned that it would not tolerate its arch-rival Iran gaining a foothold there.
At least two people were killed in an Israeli drone strike on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday. Israel also targeted the coastal city of Baniyas on the same day, resulting in material damage. SOHR said Iranian military advisors were in the area.
Last month, an Israeli airstrike killed two people near the Syrian capital of Damascus, according to SANA and another Israeli strike in southern Syria killed an army officer a week prior.
The UK-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that Israel shelled a site near Adawan village and the town of Tasil in the Daraa countryside. There is no immediate information regarding the extent of casualties.
The strike was in response to Syria firing a “single rocket” targeting Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights, according to SOHR.
Neither the Syrian army nor the IDF has commented on the strike so far.
Israel captured Syria’s Golan Heights in 1967 during the Six-Day War and annexed it in 1981. The United Nations does not recognize the annexation of the area.
The occupied Golan Heights have often been used by Israel as a launching base for airstrikes against Syria. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on regime-controlled areas of Syria throughout its 11-year civil war, often claiming to strike pro-Iran militias, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah which supports the Syrian army.
While Israel rarely comments on strikes attributed to it in Syria, it has repeatedly warned that it would not tolerate its arch-rival Iran gaining a foothold there.
At least two people were killed in an Israeli drone strike on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday. Israel also targeted the coastal city of Baniyas on the same day, resulting in material damage. SOHR said Iranian military advisors were in the area.
Last month, an Israeli airstrike killed two people near the Syrian capital of Damascus, according to SANA and another Israeli strike in southern Syria killed an army officer a week prior.
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