Syrian authorities insist they would “never be a threat” to anyone in the region, after two rockets were fired from Syria at the Golan Heights yesterday for the first time in over a year.
The IDF said it responded with artillery fire at the source of the rockets, some 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from the border with Israel. The IDF also carried out a series of airstrikes throughout southern Syria that it said targeted weapons belonging to the regime.
Syria condemns the Israeli shelling as a “blatant violation of Syrian sovereignty” that “aggravates tensions in the region.”
“Syria has never been and will never be a threat to anyone in the region,” the foreign ministry says, in a statement carried by the official SANA news agency.
The ministry denies responsibility for the rocket fire and says it can not confirm whether rockets were launched towards Israel, blaming “numerous parties… trying to destabilize the region.”
After the rocket fire, Defense Minister Israel Katz said Jerusalem would mount a “full response” against the regime of Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.
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