Israel Responds To Another Rocket Attack From Syria

An Israeli artillery unit on the Gaza border during Operation Breaking Dawn, in an image published by the military on August 9, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

A rocket was fired from Syria at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights early on December 3, according to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

The rocket landed in an open area and caused no casualties, the IDF said in a statement, adding that it shelled the source of fire in southern Syria with artillery.

Warning sirens were not sounded in any part of Golan. Syrian media said that several artillery shells hit the town of Mazraat Beit Jinn, which is located in the Rif Dimashq governorate some seven kilometers away from the heights. No casualties or damage was reported there.

The rocket attack came a day after a series of Israeli strikes hit the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing two officers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The scale of the attack suggests that it was not an Iranian response, but rather a form of protest by Palestinian armed factions in Syria to the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

Israel has escalated its attacks on Syria significantly since the outbreak of the war in Gaza. Strikes attributed to Israel have hit Aleppo and Damascus airports several times in the past weeks. In addition, the IDF struck southern Syria more than once in response to small-scale rocket attacks that targeted Golan.

War-torn Syria has largely refrained from responding to Israel’s repeated attacks over the past decade in an attempt to avoid a full-blown confrontation. However, it continues to provide support to armed factions in Gaza, like the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as well as to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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