Smoke caused by shelling rises on the Syrian side of the border with Israel, near the Quneitra crossing in the Golan Heights, on Thursday.Two missiles from Syria landed in Israel Thursday as fighting between President Bashar Assad’s forces and rebels raged on the Golan Heights.
The Israel Defense Forces said that a “closed military zone” was declared near the Quneitra border crossing in response to the fighting. People were not being allowed inside the area and locals were warned not to work in the fields.
No one was injured on the Israeli side, but two wounded Syrians who came to the border were taken to hospitals in Israel, an IDF spokeswoman said.“There were two projectiles that landed earlier in open areas in the north and central Golan Heights near the border of Israel and Syria,” she said.
“Initial reports suggest … the missiles were the result of the domestic situation in Syria,” she added, saying the “assumption at the moment” was they had not actually been fired at a target in Israel.
The closed zone was set up because of the “internal fighting within Syria.”
“Agricultural workers have been instructed not to work in fields in that area” at the moment, she said. Outsiders such as journalists would not be allowed to enter the zone.
The spokeswoman declined to comment on whether Israeli troops were being moved toward the border. An IDF source said that “we maintain routine security operation in the area” when asked the same question.
The border is guarded by a United Nations’ peacekeeping force and its operations chief Herve Ladsous confirmed there had been fighting in the area, Reuters reported.
Source: nbcnews
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