Rare rocket attacks from Syria embroiled Israel on yet another front after days of escalating regional violence ignited by a clash at a Jerusalem holy site.
The Israeli military said six rockets were fired overnight Saturday at the Golan Heights. Two landed in an open area of the plateau it captured from Syria during the 1967 Middle East War and later annexed. Another was intercepted, and three others fell short. No casualties were reported.
Israel’s military said it struck the area in Syria from which the rockets were launched with fighter jets, artillery and a drone. Targets included a military compound of the Syrian army, military radar systems and artillery posts, it said in a statement on Sunday. Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said Syrian defense forces shot down some of the rockets launched by Israel, and said the attacks led to unspecified “material losses.”
