DAMASCUS, (The Palestine Information Centre)Israel said its military tanks fired on two Syrian structures in the Golan Heights on Thursday evening.
“The strike was carried out after [Israeli] soldiers identified the two structures in the area of the security zone yesterday,” the Israeli army said in a statement.
The army claimed that two Syrian structures were established in the Golan Heights in “a violation of a 1974 disengagement accord between the two countries.”
The announcement came after at least two people were killed while riding a motorcycle near the Syrian town of Beit Jinn, about an hour north of where the tanks struck.
Palestinian sources accused Israel of conducting a strike to target the two men, whom the sources identified as belonging to the Islamic Jihad Movement.
The Golan Heights, a hilly 1,200 square kilometers plateau that also overlooks Lebanon and borders Jordan, is Syrian territory that was occupied by Israel in 1967 before annexing it in 1981.
Syria tried to regain the Heights in the 1973 Middle East war, but was thwarted. Israel and Syria signed an armistice in 1974 and the Golan had been relatively quiet since then.
A United Nations force continues to patrol a 80km long buffer zone between the Israel-occupied Heights and the Syrian side.
