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| Israel Says Gunfire from Syria Hit Its Vehicles in Golan |
| 2013-03-24 |
| [An Nahar] Gunfire from Syria hit Israeli army vehicles traveling in the southern Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday, causing some damage but no casualties, the Israeli army said. "A short while ago, military vehicles traveling in the Golan Heights were lightly damaged by bullets fired from Syria," an Israeli spokeswoman told Agence La Belle France Presse. "No one was injured, and the incident is currently being reviewed." She could not say whether the shots were aimed at the Israeli army or stray bullets from fighting in Syria between rebels and army troops. Three weeks ago a mortar shell from Syria hit the Golan Height after nearly three months of no spillover from the fighting in Syria. In November, Israeli troops responded with artillery in the first such instance of Israeli fire at the Syrian military since the 1973 war. Israel is closely monitoring its border with Syria and fears that jihadist elements from among the rebels fighting the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... might attempt to attack the Jewish state. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Israel said it fired into Syria on Sunday and destroyed a machinegun position in the Golan Heights from where shots had been fired at Israeli soldiers in a further spillover of the Syrian civil war along a tense front. lesson learned? It was not immediately clear whether Israel held Syrian troops or rebels responsible for what a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said had been a deliberate attack on Israeli patrols in the occupied territory. Israeli forces "destroyed a Syrian machine gun nest that fired twice in the last 24 hours on Israeli patrols operating to safeguard the border," the spokesman, Ofir Gendelman, said on his Twitter page. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-03-24 10:21 |