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JERUSALEM, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Israel fired shells into Syria on Tuesday after three mortars exploded earlier on Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the Israeli army said.
"In response to the rocket fire, Israel Defense Forces' artillery targeted two military posts of the Syrian Armed Forces in the central Syrian Golan Heights," a statement by the Israeli army spokesperson read.
Although it appears that the rockets which hit northern Israel on Tuesday were errant fire, a spillover from the Syrian civil war, the Israeli army said it still holds Syria accountable for attacks on Israel's turf.
"The IDF holds the Syrian army responsible and accountable for this blatant breach of Israeli sovereignty, and will not tolerate any attacks emanating from Syria, intentional or not," the military said.
There were no injuries or damage as a result of the shells hitting northern Israel.
The area of the Syrian Golan, bordering the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in its north, has been a focus of intense fighting between forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebel groups fighting to oust the government, and fire had occasionally spilled over several times during the past four years.
Israel had sometimes responded by shelling Syrian military positions.
Israeli officials have reiterated in the past several years that Israel does not intervene in the four-and-a-half year civil war in Syria, but rather protects its interests against security threats emanating from the area.
