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Syria: Three more rockets were fired from Syria towards its border area, which were intercepted and shot down before entering the border, the Israeli military said. Earlier on Saturday too, three rockets were fired by Syria. In this way, a total of six rockets were fired towards Israel within 24 hours. Israel’s military said it had responded to an attack from Syria.
The rockets were fired after escalating violence on several fronts over tensions in Jerusalem and a police raid on the Israeli city’s most sensitive holy site. In the second barrage, two rockets crossed the border into Israel, one of which was intercepted and the other landed in an open area, the army said.
In the first attack, a rocket landed in a field in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights. The Jordanian military said that fragments of another destroyed missile fell in Jordanian territory near the Syrian border. Meanwhile, a Damascus-based Palestinian group loyal to the Syrian regime claimed responsibility for launching three missiles at Israel on Saturday.
The report cited the al-Quds Brigades, a militia separate from the armed wing of the larger Palestinian Islamic Jihad of the same name, which fired rockets in response to a police raid on the al-Aqsa mosque.
