UPDATE 1: IDF artillery shelled a position of the Syrian army in the Gholan Heights. Pro-government sources have reported no casualties so far.
IDF holds the Syrian regime responsible for any aggression from its territory & won’t tolerate attacks threating Israeli sovereignty
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) 19 October 2017
A screenshot from Twitter
It looks Tel Aviv has suddenly changed its attitude towards projectiles that land in and near the Israeli-held part of the Gholan Heights.
Only a short time ago, Israeli was blaming any projectile falling in the Gholan Heights on the Damascus government and responding to this “agresssion” with airstrikes on the Syrian Arab Army across Syria.
Now, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) say that theis is “a result of the internal fighting in Syria” and don’t hurry up to bomb Syrian government forces.
The projectile was most likely a result of the internal fighting in Syria.
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) 19 October 2017
For sure this is not related to the missile incident that took place earlier this week during a visit of Russian Defense Ministry Sergey Shoigu to Tel Aviv.
On October 16, Israeli warplanes violated the Syrian airspace Baalbek area and the Syrian Air Defense Forces launched a missile at them. The IDF said that “no hits” were confirmed and announced that Israel responded with targeting an anti-aircraft battery near Damascus. Entirely by accident, the Israeli media reported on the same day that the Israeli Air Force F-35 collided with some birds “two weeks ago”. (more about this here)
