IDF says jets struck Syrian Army positions in response to rocket attack

The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday that fighter jets carried out strikes overnight against Syrian Army positions in the Daraa area in southern Syria, in response to a rocket attack on the Golan Heights the previous evening.

No injuries were caused when three rockets fired from Syria hit open areas in the southern Golan Heights.

The IDF also said Tuesday that it was responding with shelling against the source of the rocket fire.

Amid the war in the Gaza Strip, there have been several rocket attacks launched from Syria at northern Israel, without any injuries caused.

Syrian state media said Monday that “a number of Iranian advisers” were killed in an alleged Israeli attack south of the capital, in a rare acknowledgment by Damascus of Iranian casualties in strikes on Syrian territory attributed to Israel. The report also said civilians were killed but did not give a figure for either set of fatalities. READ MORE