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IDF is on high alert because of the advance of Bashar al-Assad's regime's troops against insurgents in southwestern Syria
Israeli missile fire on Wednesday (July 11th) hit Syrian army positions in southwestern Syria near the occupied Golan Heights. Syrian State Agency SANA. "Israeli enemy aircraft launched missiles at various army positions" in southwestern Quneitra province, causing material damage, according to SANA.
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), these missiles hit the north of this province as well as areas along the border with the Golan. "Missile strikes hit the Hadar area in northern Quneitra while others (strikes) hit positions of the regime and its allies near the town of Baath and the village of Jaba village" Said the OSDH without reporting casualties
Golan Warning
Initially, the SANA agency claimed that Syrian air defense had repelled an Israeli missile attack on positions of the army in this region. Earlier in the day, the Israeli army said it intercepted a drone from Syria using a missile defense system, triggering an alert in the Golan Heights, largely occupied and annexed by Israel. It was "an unarmed Syrian UAV that appeared to be carrying out an information gathering mission" said a military spokesman, Jonathan Conricus.
The Israeli police also requested to all boats on Lake Tiberias, close to this region, not to sail for security reasons.
In recent weeks, Israel is on alert, following the offensive launched on 19 June by Bashar Al-Assad and his allies to retake rebel areas in the southern province of Deraa, Syria
State of War
The Israeli army announced in early July that it had reinforced its troops on the Israeli occupation of the occupied and annexed Golan Heights
Israel has repeatedly struck Syrian territory, in particular against convoys of weapons intended, according to him, to the Lebanese Hezbollah, ally of the Syrian regime and enemy of the Jewish State. [19659007] Israel and Syria are in a state of war. Israel seized most of the Syrian Golan Heights in 1967, which it annexed in 1981. This annexation has never been recognized by the international community.
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