Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara in Katzrin for the 40th anniversary celebrations of the city of Katzrin in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, on June 28, 2017.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara were in the northern Golan Heights on Wednesday night when a mortar was fired at northern Israel from the Syrian side of the border.

“We are here celebrating the 40th anniversary of Katzrin, the capital of the Golan Heights,” Netanyahu said in remarks sent to media after the IDF retaliated in response to the attack.

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“I said that we will not tolerate spillover and that we will respond to every firing,” he noted. “During my speech, shells from the Syrian side landed in our territory, and the IDF has already struck back.

“Whoever attacks us – we will attack him. This is our policy and we will continue with it.”

The IDF did indeed retaliate in record time, hitting the Syrian military position responsible for the attack.

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Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.