by Reuters, Daniel Siryoti and Israel Hayom Staff
Rebel-allied news agencies say two Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers were killed and six Iranian military personnel were wounded while preparing to fire at Israeli Golan Heights
Smoke billows at the site of the strike in Quneitra in southern
Syria on Monday Photo: EPA
Two
officers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed by tank fire
attributed to Israel near the city Quneitra in southern Syria Monday
evening, news outlets identified with Syrian rebel groups reported
Tuesday.
The reports claimed that two Iranian
military personnel had been killed and another six wounded. The reports
said that the Revolutionary Guards had been preparing to fire at the
Israeli Golan Heights.
News outlets identified with the regime of
Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom Iran backs, said that none of the
Iranian Revolutionary Guards had been wounded in the incident and that
it had only resulted in property damage.
On Monday night, the state-run Syrian Arab
News Agency reported that an Israeli drone had fired four missiles near a
demolished hospital and an army observation post in Syria's southern
Quneitra province near the Israeli border.
An army source was quoted by SANA as saying
that the "Israeli enemy" also hit several sites along border villages
close to a 1974 demilitarized zone on the Golan Heights frontier, which
with Russian support, the Syrian army regained control from rebels last
year.
Asked about the reported Quneitra strikes, an IDF spokeswoman declined to comment.
State media earlier said the sites in
Quneitra that were hit by Israel came from several tank artillery
rounds. Social media reports at the time of the strike said that
artillery fire had targeted
Residents familiar with the area said that
the sites targeted fall within the strategic area known as the "Triangle
of Death" connecting the southern Damascus countryside with Deraa and
Quneitra provinces.
They say Shiite Hezbollah group has
consolidated its new front in southern Syria and entrenched Iran's
influence since the defeat of Sunni rebels who were once backed by the
U.S., Jordan and Gulf states.
Israel has mounted attacks in Syria as part
of its effort to counter the influence carved out there by Iran, which
has supported Assad in the war that erupted in 2011.
In January, IAF jets carried out a strike on an Iranian arms cache in Syria.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said
Israel would ramp up its fight against Iranian-aligned forces in Syria
following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria.
Reuters, Daniel Siryoti and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2019/02/12/syrian-state-media-says-israel-fires-missiles-in-southern-province/
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