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A short while ago, during military activity in the Golan Heights, soldiers spotted suspects near a military position and opened fire on them with tanks. The suspects were then evacuated to Syrian territory, the staff said in a brief message in Hebrew.
Israel captured in 1967 and then annexed part of the Syrian Golan Heights, an area of strategic importance that also borders Lebanon. The area is constantly patrolled by Israeli soldiers. According to the Syrian official news agency SANA, Israeli helicopters also opened fire on forests near the Syrian village of Al-Huriya, in the Quneitra sector, on the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a non-governmental organisation based in Britain, also reported a heavy presence of Israeli helicopters in the sector. No source mentioned any casualties. The Israeli army - which has in recent years multiplied its air strikes against what it describes as pro-Iranian elements in Syria - considers this sector to be a second front of operations against Hezbollah, a Lebanese faction close to Tehran, with which it engaged in a war in 2006. The Israeli authorities have often maintained that they will not allow Syria to become the spearhead of the forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a sworn enemy of the Jewish State. On Tuesday, the Israeli army announced that it had shot down a small reconnaissance UAV, which it claimed belonged to Hezbollah, in the area of the highly militarized Lebanese-Israeli border.
Source: KYPE
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