Israel Fires on Syria Targets From Occupied Golan: AFP, Military

Israeli tanks fired on Syrian targets from the occupied Golan Heights Thursday, an AFP photographer and the navy mentioned.

The strikes focused “two short-term constructions” utilized by the Syrian military in violation of the 1974 disengagement settlement between the 2 nations, the navy mentioned in a press release.

The AFP photographer witnessed an Israeli tank firing no less than two shells.

Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria through the Six-Day Conflict of 1967 and later annexed the territory in a transfer not acknowledged by the United Nations.

The tank hearth follows an Israeli drone strike that killed two members of the Islamic Jihad militant group earlier Thursday, based on the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Israeli navy informed AFP it will not touch upon the reported assassination, which occurred close to the demarcation line on the Golan Heights, based on the British-based warfare monitor, which has a community of sources inside Syria.

Throughout greater than a decade of warfare in Syria, neighboring Israel has launched tons of of air strikes on its territory, primarily concentrating on Iran-backed forces and Hezbollah fighters in addition to Syrian military positions.

Two troopers have been killed in Israeli strikes on Syria’s Mediterranean coast earlier this month, the official Syrian Arab Information Company reported.