Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
's forces, rejoicing at his victory.
The Iron Dome missile defense system was activated for the first time in northern Israel to intercept the two shells. At least two intercepting misiles were fired towards the Syrian border, but were "called off" in-flight by the Iron Dome's operators when it was made clear the shells were going to fall in open fields.
The falling shells caused fires in several spots in the area between Alonei HaBashan and Ein Zivan in the Goland Heights. Firefighters were called at the scene and put out the fires.
In addition, Syrians shot machine gun fire, hitting Israeli territory at the northern Golan.
No one was hurt in any of these incidents.
Israeli defense sources believe this was celebratory fire from Syrian President Bashir al-Assad's forces, who were rejoicing at Assad's election victory. Unlike the mortar shell fire last week, when a shell went
kaboom!near an IDF post on Mount Hermon and the IDF responded with artillery fire, this time the army did not respond.