Israeli jets on Saturday hit several
targets in Syria allegedly in response to rocket attacks from the
war-torn country, the military said in a written statement.
It said that "more than 10” rockets had fired from Syria earlier.
The Israeli army said the so-called
retaliatory strikes targeted Syrian positions north of Golan Heights
where rockets were allegedly fired from on Israeli territories.
"An official protest has been sent to the
United Nations Peacekeeping Forces as the Israeli sovereignty was
violated in an unacceptable way,” the army said.
Israel has occupied most of Syria’s Golan Heights since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Since the outbreak of Syria’s civil war in
2011, the Israeli army has occasionally struck targets inside Syria,
especially after shells fired from Syrian territory have fallen inside
the Golan Heights, either intentionally or in error.
