Israel Strikes Syrian Military Targets in Retaliation for Rockets Fired From Syria

Israel Strikes Syrian Military Targets in Retaliation for Rockets Fired From Syria
Israeli soldiers keep guard in Jordan Valley, the eastern-most part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank that borders Jordan on June 26, 2019. Ammar Awad/Reuters
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that it had carried out “wide-scale strikes” on targets in Syria belonging to Iranian forces. The strikes were in retaliation for four rockets fired at Israel from Syria the day before.

“We just carried out wide-scale strikes of Iranian Quds Force & Syrian Armed Forces targets in Syria in response to the rockets fired at Israel by an Iranian force in Syria last night,” the Israeli military said in a series of Twitter posts on Tuesday night.