2023-11-12 02:54:41
In response to the shelling of the annexed Golan Heights, Israel has attacked targets in neighboring Syria. The air force had targeted “terrorist infrastructure,” the army announced on Sunday morning. According to the army, two projectiles fired from Syria hit uninhabited areas in the Golan Heights on Saturday. Air alerts were raised in the region.
Israel had already attacked targets in Syria on Friday after a drone that the army said was fired from Syria hit a primary school in Eilat in southern Israel. The drone only caused property damage.
Israel has occupied the strategically important Golan Heights since the end of the Six-Day War in 1967 and annexed them in 1981. The international community still does not recognize the annexation to this day.
Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th, fears of an expansion of the war in the region have been growing. In particular, there are fears that Israel’s existing conflicts with pro-Iranian groups in Syria and with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, which is allied with the Syrian government, could be further fueled.
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