Photo Credit: Basel Awidat / Flash 90
UN observer in the Golan Heights near the Israeli-Syrian border. June 24, 2017.

Israeli Defense Forces retaliated Saturday night in response to shelling from across the northern border in Syria earlier in the evening.

“IDF forces targeted the Syrian military artillery position that was the source of the previous fire in the northern Golan Heights,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement.

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“The errant projectile was a result of Syrian internal fighting.”

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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.