[An Nahar] Israel's new Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon on Sunday vowed an "immediate" answer to all Syrian gunfire onto the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, saying the Damascus...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations...
regime was responsible.
"Every violation of Israeli illusory sovereignty and shooting from the Syrian side will immediately be answered by silencing the source of fire," he said in a statement.
His remarks were made shortly after Israeli troops on the strategic plateau shot at a Syrian army post after coming under fire for the second time in 12 hours, the army said.
"We view with great seriousness the shooting last night and this morning from Syria at an IDF force on territory of the State of Israel," Yaalon said.
"We see the Syrian regime as responsible for every breach of illusory sovereignty. We shall not allow the Syrian army or any other body to violate Israeli illusory sovereignty firing into our territory."
Earlier, a military front man said shots had been fired at troops in the southern Golan Heights.
"The soldiers responded with accurate fire toward the Syrian post from which they were fired upon," he said. No one was hurt on the Israeli side.
It was not immediately clear whether the shooting was from the Syrian army or from rebel forces in the area.