Just after 5:00 a.m. on Shabbos morning, four rockets landed in Israel’s Golan Heights causing Red Alert sirens to sound across the region. The rockets were fired from Syria prompting a military response from the IDF. The IDF issued a statement saying that they marked five launches from Syria territory aimed at Israel and responded by destroying three artillery batteries belonging to Assad’s governmental forces.

An IDF spokesperson was quoted by Israeli media as saying: “Even if we are talking about a trickle of aggression coming from the other side of the border, we want to make clear that continued actions of this sort will be met with an increase of force in Israel’s response.”

Syrian sources said that: “Israel is instructing the rebels to fire on its own territory in order to justify attacking us as a response.” Syria filed a complaint with the secretary of the United Nations over the incident.

This is the second time in less than a week that errant fire from Syria hit Israel, to which Israel responding by destroying military targets in Syria.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)