Tel Aviv [Israel], January 2 (ANI/TPS): The Israel Defence Forces struck targets in Syria on Monday night after five rockets were fired across the border into the Golan Heights. According to the IDF, the rockets all fell in open areas. Israeli media reported that some of the rockets landed on a road near Golan communities. Dashcam footage shared on social media shows a rocket impacting close to cars.
Syrian state media reported that several targets were hit in the Damascus region at 4:45 am. On Sunday night, Israeli Air Force fighter jets shot down two apparent drones launched towards northern Israel from Syria.
One “hostile aircraft” was downed after crossing into northern Israel, triggering sirens in the Golan Heights communities of Keshet and Katzrin, according to the IDF. A little over an hour later, another aircraft was intercepted while “on route to Israeli territory from the east,” according to the military.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq took responsibility for the attack, saying that it was “in support of Gaza.” The umbrella group of Iranian-backed radical Shi’ite militias in Iraq and Syria is composed of Kata’ib Hezbollah, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba and Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhadaa. It marked at least the third drone attack on Israel by the Iran-backed militias since the start of the war, including a suicide drone that fell in the Golan Heights last week. (ANI/TPS)
Israeli forces strike Hamas targets along Gaza coast
Tel Aviv [Israel], January 2 (ANI/TPS): Israeli ground, naval and air forces struck Hamas targets along the Gaza coast in the past day, the Israel Defence Forces said on Tuesday morning. Troops identified and struck Hamas terror squads, planting explosives along the coast and inside nearby compounds. In joint operations, Israeli naval, aerial, and ground forces targeted a number of the terrorists and neutralised the explosives.
Furthermore, IDF troops identified three terrorists in southern Gaza City entering a terrorist compound. An IDF fighter jet struck the compound and killed the terrorists. After the strike, secondary explosions were observed, indicating that large quantities of weapons were stored inside the compound.
In Khan Yunis, Israeli ground troops struck terrorist infrastructure that posed a threat to the soldiers. Directed by IDF intelligence, soldiers raided operational Hamas compounds where weapons were stored and where terror attacks were directed. Numerous weapons were seized.
During searches in the central Gaza Strip, a weapons production facility, launch pits and long-range rocket launchers were located. The launchers were dismantled by IDF engineering forces. Furthermore, IDF troops killed dozens of terrorists, among them those who attempted to plant explosive devices, and operate drones, and several armed terrorists driving a vehicle towards forces in Jabaliya.
In addition, IDF troops located in Bureij several rocket launchers positioned adjacent to a UNRWA school.
At least 1,200 people were killed in Hamas‘s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on Oct. 7. The number of men, women, children, soldiers and foreigners held captive in Gaza by Hamas is now believed to be 129. Other people remain unaccounted for as Israeli authorities continue to identify bodies and search for human remains. (ANI/TPS)
