2023-11-12 04:29:00
After shelling the Golan Heights, Israel attacks terrorist targets in Syria
November 12, 2023, 5:29 a.m. Listen to article
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Israel annexed the Golan Heights for security reasons. Rockets from Syria are still hitting unpopulated areas. The Israeli Air Force bombed the aggressors at night. A clear warning is also being sent to Lebanon.
In response to the shelling of the annexed Golan Heights, Israel has attacked targets in neighboring Syria. The army announced this morning that the air force had targeted “terrorist infrastructure”. 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, 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.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant had previously warned the Hezbollah militias in Lebanon against attacks on northern Israel. The Israeli Air Force would only deploy less than a tenth of its forces in the Gaza Strip. “Our pilots are sitting in the cockpit, the noses of the planes are facing north. We have enough to do in the south, but the air force is facing north,” he added.
Fear of escalation
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.
On October 7, hundreds of Hamas fighters entered Israel and committed atrocities, mostly against civilians, including many children. According to updated Israeli figures, 1,200 people were killed in Israel and more than 240 people were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip.
Israel then declared war on Hamas, which the USA and the EU classified as a terrorist organization, and targeted positions of the Palestinian organization in the Gaza Strip. According to Hamas information, which cannot be independently verified, more than 11,000 people have been killed since then, including 4,500 children.
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