Sunday, June 25, 2017

Israel STRIKES Syria After Mortars Were Lobbed Into Golan Heights!

In a swift response to at least ten missiles being launched from Syria that hit inside Israeli territory, the Israel Air Force on Saturday carried out retributive strikes targeting the positions from which the mortars were tracked to have originated.

“Furthermore, the IAF targeted two tanks belonging to the Syrian regime in the Northern Syrian Golan Heights,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement explaining their response. 

Earlier on Saturday, the IDF informed Israeli civilians to stay clear from the border area near Quneitra, which is the small village near the Golan Height’s border close to southern Syria, and falls within a zone formerly disarmed by the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). 

The IDF believes that the mortar shells that landed in Israel was most likely rounds that were off target, launched by groups fighting each other across the border in Syria.   Read more.....

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