Israel's military said it struck several dozen Iranian military targets in Syria overnight in response to rocket attacks attributed to Iran on Israeli positions in the Golan Heights.
The Israeli army announced earlier today that several sirens warning of an air attack were heard in the Golan Heights area, Tanjug reported.
The sirens sounded, according to a brief statement, early Thursday morning local time, reports Reuters.
"The details are being analyzed," it was stated in the statement at the time.
The operation of the Israeli army is one of the largest against Iranian targets in Syria in recent years.
The spokesman of the Israeli army, Jonathan Conricus, said early this morning that the positions from which rockets were fired at Israel, as well as other logistics and intelligence facilities and warehouses, were targeted.
According to him, Israel does not want military escalation.
Syria's Sana news agency reported that several Israeli rockets hit military bases as well as weapons storage, without giving details.
Sources close to the Syrian forces said that the Israeli army hit positions in Dumeir, about 50 kilometers northeast of Damascus.
The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, for its part, stated that the Israeli army targeted positions of members of the Lebanese Shiite radical movement Hezbollah in Homs, as well as positions west of Damascus where Iranian fighters are located.
Those incidents happened a few hours after rockets were fired at the Golan Heights.
So far, there are no reports of possible casualties.
The Golan, Syria's strategic plateau, was conquered by Israel in 1967 and annexed in 1981, which the international community has never recognized.
That plateau is located on the border of Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
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