The Israeli army fired rockets into Syria on Sunday. The attack was in retaliation for a rocket attack on the Golan Heights. The six missiles fired there from Syria on Saturday and Sunday caused no damage.
According to the Lebanese channel Al Mayadeen the attack on Israel has been claimed by the Al-Quds Brigades. That is the armed branch of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. This wing is supported by Iran.
Three of the six missiles reached the Golan Heights. Two rockets fell to the ground and a third was intercepted by air defenses, according to the Israeli army.
Most of the Golan Heights were captured by Israel from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967.
There has been unrest in Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank for some time now. Protests have been going on in Israel for months now. They are directed against the legal reforms that the right-wing government wants to implement.
In the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, one person was killed and seven injured on Friday evening after an Arab Israeli drove into tourists with a car. The perpetrator was shot. Earlier in the day, an attack on the Israeli-occupied West Bank killed two young British-Israeli sisters.
In the past year, about 250 Palestinians and 43 Israelis have been killed in violence in the region.
