The Israeli military announced today, Friday, that it launched airstrikes overnight Thursday/Friday on a military site in southern Syria in response to a rocket shell fired towards southern Golan Heights.
In a statement, the Israeli army stated that “during the past night hours (Thursday), the Defense Forces attacked a military site in the Tseel area of southern Syria, in response to the firing of a rocket shell towards southern Golan Heights, which fell in an open area without reports of casualties.”
On the other hand, the Al-Alam news channel reported Syrian sources as saying that “two rockets were launched from agricultural lands located between the town of Tseel and the village of Adwan in the Yarmouk Valley area, north of the Syrian-Jordanian border, towards areas controlled by the Israeli army in the occupied Golan Heights.”
The sources added that Israeli artillery resumed shelling agricultural lands around Tel Ashera, east of Tseel, without recording any damages.
Tseel town is located in the Yarmouk Valley area at the Syrian-Jordanian-Israeli triangle border, approximately 10 kilometers north of the Jordanian kingdom border.
Earlier on Thursday, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that the Golan Heights Regional Council stated that a rocket was launched from Syrian territories towards southern Golan Heights in the Daliyat intersection area, causing a fire at the location, without mentioning any injuries resulting from the fire.
