After numerous missiles were fired from Syria, Israel stated it began attacking military sites in Syria.

Three of the six missiles fired from Syria against Israel entered Israeli territory, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). One of the rockets fell inside the Golan Heights, which are occupied by Israel.

The Army has not yet recorded any damage occurring on Israeli soil.

It is the most recent flare-up after Israel early on Friday morning attacked Palestinian militant targets in Gaza and southern Lebanon in retaliation for dozens of missiles Lebanon had fired into Israeli territory.

Once the rockets were launched, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it had started attacking targets in Syrian territory.

The Fourth Division of the Syrian Armed Forces’ military barracks, military radar systems, and artillery installations were among the targets targeted by IDF fighter jets recently, according to a statement released by the IDF early on Sunday local time.

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The fighter jet attacks came after earlier IDF UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle or drone) strikes on Syrian territory that were directed towards the launchers believed to have fired the rockets.

The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) declared that it “sees the state of Syria responsible for any acts occurring within its territory and will not allow any attempts to violate Israeli sovereignty.”

As rockets fired from the Gaza Strip are intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system, streaks of light may be seen, as seen from Ashkelon on Friday.
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Syria claimed to have intercepted “several Israeli missiles” and that it had replied to “Israeli air attacks in the southern region of the nation.”

Syrian state media outlet SANA cited a military source as stating, “About 5 a.m. today, the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack with a number of missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, hitting several areas in the southern region.”

The military source further stated, according to SANA, that Syrian air defenses had “intercepted the aggressors’ missiles and shot down some of them.”

During the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel conquered Syria for control of the Golan Heights, which it annexed in 1981. International law and decisions of the UN Security Council define the Golan Heights as occupied territory.

Al-Aqsa mosque-related tensions
The rocket launches occur at a time when regional tensions have risen as a result of Israeli police raids on Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa shrine.

Muslims view Israeli police raids on the mosque as a serious provocation.

On Wednesday of last week, Israeli police conducted two raids into the mosque, alleging that “hundreds of rioters and mosque desecrators (had) locked themselves.”

The Israeli police said again on Saturday night that “several youths [had] entered the mosque and closed the doors, for no reason.”

Jordan, a country that borders Israel, threatened “catastrophic consequences” if Israeli forces once more stormed the mosque.

On April 9, 2023, Israeli soldiers look for a rocket that had landed close to Kibbutz Meitsar on the Golan Heights.
On April 9, 2023, Israeli soldiers look for a rocket that had landed close to Kibbutz Meitsar on the Golan Heights.
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The spokesperson for the Jordanian Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Sinan al-Majali, stated that if the Israeli police continued to “assault worshipers in an attempt to empty [the mosque] of worshipers, in preparation for major incursions into the mosque,” it would “push the situation towards more tension and violence, for which everyone will pay the price.”

Al-Majali stated that “the Israeli government bears responsibility for the escalation in Jerusalem and in all of the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as for the deterioration that will get worse if it does not cease its incursions into the revered Al-Aqsa mosque… and its terrorizing of worshipers in these blessed days.

After the warning from Jordan, the Israeli Foreign Ministry released a statement early on Sunday in which it said that those who “barricade themselves within [the al-Aqsa mosque] are a dangerous rabble, radicalized and incited by Hamas and other terror organizations.”

Early on Friday, April 7, 2023, an explosion brought on by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City causes smoke and fire to rise. After a day of rocket fire along the country’s northern and southern borders and two days of rioting at Jerusalem’s most sacred site, the Israeli military bombed targets in the Gaza Strip early on Friday, bringing the area closer to a wider conflagration. (Adel Hana/AP Picture)
Attacks in Tel Aviv and the West Bank as tensions are still high after Israeli strikes
The Waqf guardians of Jordan’s al-Aqsa Mosque were urged by the Israeli Foreign Ministry to “immediately remove these radicals who are preparing to riot (on Sunday) during Muslim prayers on the Temple Mount and the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall” from there.

The Waqf is the organization that Jordan established to oversee the al-Aqsa mosque complex, also referred to by Jews as the Temple Mount.

Reports of shooting in the West Bank
A 20-year-old Palestinian male was killed by the IDF on Saturday night in the village of Azzoun in the occupied West Bank, according to the Ramallah Authority Ministry of Health.

According to the ministry, Ayed Azam Salim was killed by live Israeli bullets that struck him in the chest and abdomen in the Qalqilya neighborhood.

Several suspects threw an explosive device at IDF soldiers in the hamlet of Azzun “after normal activities,” according to a statement from the IDF. According to the statement, soldiers retaliated “with live bullets towards them,” and one of them was hurt. According to the statement, there were no injuries to IDF personnel.

According to the Palestinian News Agency WAFA, Salim was transferred to a hospital in Qalqilya, where he later passed away.

A car-ramming attack occurred in Tel Aviv on Friday, leaving one person dead and seven others hurt. According to police, the driver of the automobile was a 45-year-old inhabitant of Kfar Kasem, an Arab-dominated community east of Tel Aviv.

Authorities in Israel and Italy identified the victim as an Italian tourist named Alessandro Parini. He was described as a 35-year-old lawyer by Italian media. The act was referred to by Israeli police as a “terror attack.”