[YNet] In early morning strike, IAF attacks terrorists in the Syrian side of the Golan Heights 'preventing grave incident'; explosives and Kalashnikov rifles found in the area after the strike; Lieberman earlier: 'There is a clear address' to incidents on Syrian border now. An Israeli Air Force aircraft attacked a group of armed terrorists in the Syrian southern Golan Heights early Thursday, killing seven armed terrorists and preventing a "grave incident", Israel Radio said on Thursday without citing sources.
The Israeli military confirmed carrying out an air strike overnight, saying it had targeted "several armed terror operatives in the southern Syrian Golan Heights" overnight.
The incident reportedly occurred around 10:30 PM, when the terrorists were located around 200 meters from the border fence, just north of the border triangle with Jordan.
In the morning, the Nahal Brigade forces searched the area and found the terrorists' bodies belonging to the ISIS-linked group known as the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade.
According to the IDF Spokesperson`s Unit said that after the strike, "explosive belts and an AK-47 assault rifle were found in the area" have also been found.
The incident occurred near the area still controlled by an ISIS-linked group. The group has about 300 fighters and is the only one in the Syrian Golan that has not yet surrendered to the Assad army, which has already taken control of most of the Golan Heights along the border with Israel.
It is probable that the group was behind last week's rocket attack, when two missiles landed in the Kinneret area, in order to force Israel to retaliate and strike Syrian military. However, the ISIS-linked group is on the verge of surrendering to the Syrian military.
The IDF is now investigating whether the group planned a bloody ground attack in the Israeli territory in order to drag the IDF into the civil war in Syria.