Five dead in new Israeli raid on Syria

The Israeli army also released a statement, saying, “This was the work of (Palestinian) Islamic Jihad…and we consider the Syrian government responsible for the firing and it will suffer the consequences”.

The Israeli army said it carried out the air strike in retaliation for rocket strikes into northern Israel on Thursday, which it said were fired from Syria.

“The military struck the cell that carried out the shooting and the Syrian forces that allowed it. We have no intention of escalating events”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

The military industry called the solid-fuel missile one of the most exact ever manufactured, boasting that it has successfully hit multiple targets with great precision, Israel’s Walla website reported. There has not been rocket fire from Syria at the Galilee for a long time, perhaps since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israeli media reported, and analysts said it was a potential game-changer.

Syrian state TV reported the strike as killing five “unarmed civilians” at a Syrian army position.

Despite allegations coming from Israel, the Islamic Jihad denies any involvement about the recent rocket attack that is being pinned on them.

The attack Israel is pinning on the Islamic Jihad movement “with Iranian funding and direction”, occurred Thursday.

No details were offered by Israel proving that the rockets had been fired by Islamic Jihad.

On Tuesday, Mr Netanyahu, accompanied by his defence minister, Moshe Ya’alon, visited the northern border region and vowed to strike anyone who threatened Israel. Furthermore, Israel said it holds Syria responsible as the attack emanated from its turf.

Previous attacks have mainly targeted supply routes and arms depots of Al Assad’s Lebanese ally Hezbollah inside Syria.

The rocket attacks Thursday landed in open areas of the Golan Heights and Upper Galilee.

The policy has remained the same policy and it seems that this time the Iranians chose to fire into Israeli territory and deep into Israeli territory, but not to hurt and kill.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the country’s war, said the five dead were members of the pro-government National Defense Forces.

– December 7: Syria’s army accuses Israel of striking two regime-held areas in Damascus province.

Israel says some of the attacks have been accidental spillover from the Syrian conflict while others have been intentionally aimed at Israeli civilians and soldiers.