Thousands of Jews visited the Al-Aqsa compound under heavy police guard on Sunday, amid heightened tensions after an Israeli police raid on a mosque in Jerusalem that killed three people, including two British-Israeli sisters, in the past two days. Recent attacks ignored. ,
The Times of Israel quoted the military as saying that the major religious gathering took place on the Golan Heights despite two separate barrage hours apart from six rockets being fired from southern Syria on Saturday night and into the early hours of Sunday.
In addition, the Israeli military said it carried out artillery and drone strikes in southern Syria, aimed at the launchers used to attack Tel Aviv.
In addition, the Defense Forces claimed that Israeli fighter jets carried out additional airstrikes near the capital, Damascus. A Damascus-based Palestinian group loyal to the Syrian government claimed responsibility for the first round of rockets, saying it was retaliating for the al-Aqsa raid.
Violence at shrine sparks rocket fire by Palestinian terrorists
Violence at the shrine has prompted Palestinian militants to fire rockets from the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon since Wednesday, and Israeli airstrikes targeted both areas. Late Saturday and early Sunday, militants in Syria fired rockets in two salvos toward Israel and the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
In the first attack, a rocket landed in a field in the Golan Heights. The Jordanian military said fragments of another destroyed missile fell on Jordanian territory near the Syrian border. In the second round, two rockets crossed the border into Israel, the Israeli military said, with one being intercepted and the other landing in an open area.
Israel responded with Syrian artillery fire in the area from where the rockets were fired. Later, the army said that Israeli fighter jets attacked Syrian army sites including a compound of the Syrian 4th Division and radar and artillery posts.
Erdogan discussed violence in a telephone call with Israeli counterpart
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the violence in a telephone call with Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog late Saturday, telling Herzog that Muslims cannot remain silent about “provocations and threats” against the Al-Aqsa Mosque , and said that hostilities that have spread to Gaza and Lebanon should not be allowed to escalate.
In addition to cross-border fighting, three people were killed over the weekend in Israeli and Palestinian attacks in the occupied West Bank. Funerals for two British-Israeli sisters, Maia and Rina Dee, who were killed in a shooting, were scheduled for Sunday at a cemetery in the Jewish settlement of Kfar Etzion in the occupied West Bank.
(with inputs from agencies)
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