An Israeli officer has been injured in the occupied Golan Heights after shots were fired from Syrian territory at one of the Syrian military units.
Israeli media quoted a military source as saying that the officer was at the site as part of a military unit to evacuate a bulldozer stuck there when he sustained slight injuries by shrapnel from a bullet fired from Syria.
Tensions have been high in the occupied Golan Heights since an attack by Israel on a convoy of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement on January 17. The assault killed six Hezbollah members along with an Iranian general.
Hezbollah later announced that the attack had been coordinated between Tel Aviv and the al-Nusra terrorists.
In response, Hezbollah fighters also launched a rocket assault around the Shebaa Farms south of Lebanon later that month, killing two Israeli soldiers and wounding scores of others.
Late last year, a UN report confirmed contact between terrorists in Syria and the Israeli army across the Golan ceasefire line, especially during heavy clashes between the terrorists and the Syrian troops.
The report substantiated that terrorists had been taking their wounded comrades into the Israeli-occupied part of the Golan Heights for treatment.
The UN also confirmed the delivery of boxes by the Israeli army to terrorists on the Syrian side of the ceasefire line.
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