The IDF believes the mortar shells that landed in Israel where likely spillover fire launched by groups fighting across the border in Syria, particularly in Quneitra, the small village near the Golan Heights’ border with southern Syria that falls within a zone formerly demilitarized by the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). We will respond with force to any fire on our territory.”

The IDF video contradicts a Syrian military claim carried by Syrian state-run media that the Israeli strikes had targeted “services facilities and residential buildings in the surroundings of al-Baath city in Quenitra.” The Syrian military also claimed that two people died in the Israeli strikes.
Israel strikes two Syrian Army artillery positions and an ammunition truck in Quneitra Governorate, after stray shells from Syria land in the northern Golan Heights for a second day in a row.