The Israeli navy says it has released artillery assaults on Syria after numerous rockets had been fired from Syrian territory toward northern Israel, none of which brought on harm or casualties.
The cross-border exchanges early on Sunday got here as Israel escalates violence on more than one fronts, along with in Gaza, Lebanon, occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
There changed into no on the spot remark from the Syrian government.
The Israeli navy stated it had released artillery assaults and a drone in opposition to the rocket launchers in Syria.
There had been rounds of rocket launches from Syrian territory withinside the early hours of Sunday, it stated. The first concerned 3 rockets, one in all which landed in a subject withinside the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
The 2nd launch, which additionally concerned 3 rockets, activate sirens in northern Israel. There had been no reviews of casualties. Jordan`s navy stated particles from a rocket fell into its territory however brought on no casualties or harm.
Lebanon-primarily based totally Al Mayadeen TV stated the rocket launches had been claimed through the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement.
The rocket hearthplace from Syria comes in opposition to the backdrop of hovering Israeli-Palestinian tensions induced through Israeli police raids at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound wherein police fired stun grenades and rubber-lined metallic bullets at Palestinian worshippers collected for Ramadan prayers.
The web website online in Jerusalem`s Old City, holy to each Muslims and Jews, who understand it as Temple Mount, has been a longstanding flashpoint, considerably over the problem of Jewish traffic defying a ban on non-Muslim prayer withinside the mosque compound.
The raids got here at a time of heightened spiritual fervour – with Ramadan coinciding with the Jewish vacation of Passover and the Christian Easter celebrations. Violent scenes from the assaults outraged Palestinians looking at the holy fasting month of Ramadan and brought about armed corporations in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip to hearthplace a barrage of rockets into Israel.
The Israeli navy then bombed numerous webweb sites that it stated belonged to the Palestinian organization Hamas in Gaza and southern Lebanon.
Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist and author, informed Al Jazeera that tensions among Israel and its neighbours had been at a essential point.
“The state of affairs is extraordinarily explosive,” he stated.
“Unlike the previous years, we’re dealing with a totally radical government, that is one hand pretty powerful, and on the opposite very fragile, due to the fact the maximum radical elements of it are pushing for motion that could flip out right into a catastrophe,” he stated, regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu`s ultra-nationalist government.
“The scenes from the Al-Aqsa Mosque had been scenes now no longer visible in latest years of their brutality and I suppose that any small fit can set hearthplace now to the complete area. Hopefully, it’s going to now no longer happen, however no one can assure this may now no longer happen,” he stated.
Levy additionally referred to Israel has been wearing out loads of assaults in opposition to what it says are Iran-connected corporations in Syria, bombing ports and airports, along with the principle facility in Aleppo that have been a conduit for resource shipments because the lethal earthquakes that hit northern Syria and southern Turkey on February 6.
“There isn’t anyt any public argument approximately this [raids in Syria] in Israel and no records approximately it in Israel. Nobody is aware of why and what shape and what’s the price,” Levy stated.
“One element is clear. Israel is violating Syrian sovereignty and Israel is gambling with hearthplace with Iran. How lengthy will the Syrians and the Iranians tolerate this?”
The local tensions additionally come as violence has additionally escalated in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
In the northern occupied West Bank, Israeli protection forces on Saturday shot and killed a 20-year-antique Palestinian, consistent with the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Ahed Salim, 20, changed into hit withinside the chest and belly through stay hearthplace in Azzun close to Qalqilyah, the ministry stated.
Earlier withinside the day, 4 Palestinians had been additionally wounded while Israeli settlers hurled stones at their vehicles at a checkpoint at the doorway to the metropolis of el-Bireh.
The Wafa information employer mentioned extra Israeli settler assaults on Palestinian houses and cars withinside the city of Deir Ballout.
Israel has additionally been on facet after a car-ramming in Tel Aviv on Friday that killed an Italian guy and wounded 5 different tourists. The Tel Aviv assault got here hours after a Palestinian guy shot and killed Israeli sisters and wounded their mom close to an unlawful Israeli agreement withinside the occupied West Bank.
Amid the escalation, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has prolonged a closure barring front to Israel for Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip in the course of Passover, whilst police beefed up forces in Jerusalem at the eve of touchy spiritual celebrations.
Mass prayers, however, had been approved on the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday and Saturday.
More than 2,000 police had been anticipated to be deployed in Jerusalem on Sunday – while tens of hundreds of Jews are anticipated to acquire on the Western Wall on the Al-Aqsa compound for the unique Passover priestly blessing.
