Israel hits Iran with missiles after attack at occupied Goland Heights

Dozens of Iranian military targets in Syria were hit by missiles fired overnight by Israeli forces, reports reveal.

According to Israeli forces, the attack was launched after Tehran was accused of launching rocket and missile attack towards its (Israeli) forces in the occupied Golan Heights.

“The (Israeli military) has struck dozens of Iranian military targets in Syria,” Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus told journalists.

According to Conricus, the attack targeted intelligence, logistics, storage and vehicles as well as the origin of the rockets.

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Syrian state news agency SANA citing a military source said a Syrian radar installation was destroyed in the attack.

“This is the first time that Israel has directly accused Iran of attacking it from within Syrian territory since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011,” Al Jazeera correspondent Harry Fawcett said from Jerusalem.

Reports say Israel has carried out more than a dozen strikes inside Syria in the past one year.

Israel and Syria are still technically at war, although the border remained largely quiet for decades until 2011, when the Syrian conflict broke out.

 

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