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IDF: 6 rockets fired from Syria at Golan Heights; military retaliates with strikes
Three projectiles cross into Israeli territory in 2 separate barrages, causing no casualties or damage; residents told to open bomb shelters, stay near safe zones
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Six rockets were launched from southern Syria at the Golan Heights on Saturday night and early Sunday in two separate barrages hours apart, with three landing in Israeli territory, the military said.
After the second barrage, the Israel Defense Forces said it carried out artillery and drone strikes in southern Syria, targeting the launchers that had been used to fire the rockets. Later, Israeli and Syrian media said Israel carried out additional airstrikes near the capital Damascus.
Earlier, the IDF said Saturday night that three rockets were fired, of which one crossed the border and landed in an open area near the northern Israeli town of Meitsar. An incoming rocket alert was activated in an open area near the town shortly before, the IDF said.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-3-rockets-launched-from-syria-at-golan-heights-one-lands-in-israeli-territory/
Tension boils after hundreds hole up in Al-Aqsa Mosque, allegedly plan violence
Large police presence around Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, with Jordan accusing Israel of ‘fabricating facts’ on standoff; Jews set to visit site, masses expected at Western Wall
Hundreds of Palestinians have for hours been barricading themselves inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque in the flashpoint Temple Mount holy site and are refusing to disperse.
Many Israeli police forces are deployed in the area and are expected at some point to enter the mosque to remove the Palestinians, who are threatening to disrupt morning visits by Jews to the site and to attempt to attack Jewish masses set to attend the annual Priestly Blessing prayers at the Western Wall for Passover.
Jordan’s Waqf authorities have refused to remove the Palestinians, and Amman has claimed Israel is trying to “fabricate the facts” and demanded that Israel stop its “attacks on worshipers.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-april-9-2023/
IDF says latest airstrikes targeted Syrian army base, radar, artillery post
The Israeli military says the latest Air Force raids in Syria targeted a military compound belonging to the Syrian army’s 4th Division, as well as a radar and artillery posts used by the army.
The strikes were a retaliation to six rockets launched from Syria toward the Golan Heights last night and early this morning, of which three crossed into Israeli territory.
The IDF earlier responded with artillery and drone strikes targeting the rocket launchers used to fire the projectiles.
The IDF adds that it “views the Syrian state as responsible for everything happening in its territory and will not enable attempts to violate Israel’s sovereignty.”