Israel's Golan Heights Struck By Two Syrian Rockets

An Israeli military source said two projectiles fired from Syria struck Israel's Golan Heights on Tuesday. The source gave no further details. Israel's Channel Two TV said there were no casualties in the incident, which triggered Israeli warning sirens in the area. The strike came nine days after an Israeli air strike in Syria killed several Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas and an Iranian general. An Israeli military spokesman said the army "responded with artillery towards the positions that launched the attack" and that it ordered the evacuation of Israel's Mt. Hermon ski resort on the Golan Heights after the rockets struck. There was no immediate claim of responsibility or any report of casualties. Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner, an Israeli army spokesman, told Reuters, "It does not seem that it was errant fire." Israel captured the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. Mortar shells and rockets have struck the heights numerous times during Syria's nearly four-year-old civil war. http://bit.ly/15KAOnU http://bit.ly/1fJ5yqZ