The Israeli military said that early on April 9, 2023, its troops conducted missile attacks against targets in Syria after Syria's northeastern neighbour launched six rockets at Israel in two waves from its territory.
Israel first claimed that it fired artillery into the region in Syria where the missiles were launched after the second strike of three rockets.
Subsequently, the military said that Israeli fighter jets had hit various Syrian army positions, including a 4th Division facility as well as radar and artillery positions.
After days of rising violence on various fronts due to unrest in Jerusalem and an Israeli police raid on the city's most sacred site, rocket fire broke out.
Two rockets from the second barrage, which was fired early on Sunday, crossed the border into Israel; one of them was intercepted, and the other one landed in a wide open space, according to the Israeli military.
There were no casualty reports.
According to Al-Mayadeen TV in Beirut, a Palestinian organisation located in Damascus that is supportive of the Syrian government claimed responsibility for the three missile launches on Saturday.
According to the report, the Al-Quds Brigade, a militia distinct from the wider Palestinian Islamic Jihad's armed wing of the same name, launched the rockets in response to the police raid on the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The missile attacks were "part of the previous, present, and continuing response to the brutal enemy," according to a Bashar Assad adviser in Syria. Israeli security forces fatally shot a 20-year-old Palestinian in the village of Azzun in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian health officials, setting off protests there.
(Photo: ANI)
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