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Israel Fires ‘Direct Hit’ at Syria After That Country’s Civil War Spills Across Border

Nov. 12, 2012 11:35am Sharona Schwartz

For the second day in a row, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fired back into Syria after what’s being described as an errant mortar shell fired in Syria landed on the Israeli side of the border in the Golan Heights on Monday.

In a statement, the IDF said:

A short while ago, a mortar shell hit an open area in the vicinity of an IDF post in the central Golan Heights, as part of the internal conflict inside Syria, causing no damage or injuries.

In response, IDF soldiers fired tank shells towards the source of the fire, confirming direct hits.

The IDF has filed a complaint with the UN forces operating in the area, stating that fire emanating from Syria into Israel will not be tolerated and shall be responded to with severity.

Haaretz reports the IDF tanks fired at two Syrian mortar shell positions. As seen in the IDF statement, Israeli military officials believe the shell was not intended for Israel, but is rather part of the ongoing civil strife gripping Syria. Haaretz reports this is the sixth case in just over a week in which Syrian infighting has spilled into Israel.

On Sunday, Israeli officials were emphasizing the military had fired a “warning” shot. Specifically, Israeli media reported the IDF Artillery Corps had launched a precision-guided Tammuz anti-tank missile for that warning which indeed missed its target, a Syrian army mortar crew.

By contrast, on Sunday, the IDF confirmed it had scored “direct hits.” This, perhaps, to send a stronger message to the Syrians.

The Jerusalem Post reports:

The Syrian shell landed near an IDF outpost in Hazeka on the Golan. Army Radio reported that there were no injuries or damage from the shell, which hit as Israel suffered a barrage of missiles from Gaza, putting the IDF in the position of monitoring enemy fire along both the northern and southern borders.

After Sunday’s mortar shell exploded, Israel sent a warning message to the UN, saying that any further firing into Israel will result “in a real response.”

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday called for restraint on both sides. In a statement, he said he is “deeply concerned by the potential for escalation. He calls for the utmost restraint and urges Syria and Israel to uphold the Disengagement Agreement, respect their mutual obligations, and halt firing of any kind across the ceasefire line.”

Sunday was the first time since the 1973 Yom Kippur War that Israel has fired directly over the border into Syria, a fact the Israeli media covering the story has been highlighting, emphasizing the extent to which Israelis are concerned the Syrian strife could spill beyond the embattled country’s borders.

The Times of Israel writes:

The mortar fire from Syria is widely seen in Israel as constituting errant shells rather than deliberate attacks, but concern is mounting at the potential for casualties. A shell last week fell inside an Israeli moshav, but failed to explode; residents said the consequences could have been disastrous had it done so.

It quoted IDF spokesman Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai who said on Sunday: “We have no interest in getting in between the rebels and the Syrian army, but rather to defend the Golan Heights from stray fire.”

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kentonj
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 12:24pm
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TPIndividual
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 10:17am
Bashir would like to create a war against Israel to stop his Civil War

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Chromo200
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:32pm
be prepared for a war in the middle east this coming summer. Gas at $5 or 6 per gallon.

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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 12:45am
  You’re nuts — $8-10 IF We are lucky. Obama has eviscerated our domestic production where he could. The only thing that will keep it below that is the pitiful economy which is about to get worse.. The inevitable can’t be avoided. The hair trigger is set. We need to
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:28pm
Syria must have a serious death wish to fire at Israel while they are in the midst of a civil war. It would seem they had enough enemies to fight without inviting a military reponse from Israel. Israel should retaliate on the agressor no matter which side it is. The rebels fighting the Syrian army are Muslim Brotherhood and Hizbollah. They are no friends of Israel. When it comes to the Syrian civil war…it is a lose-lose situation for Israel’s security. Both sides are hostile.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:31pm
  “They are no friends of Israel.”
  
  Other than America, who is?
  
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jackact
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:58pm
Good shooting Bibi.
And another.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:07pm
  Hell, these Zionist zealots have had enough practice.
  
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ellietoo
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:41pm
How would you like to live in that neighborhood? Now the only major power that supported Israel is selling arms to the “rebels” that are fighting in Syria. Our government is supporting the Islamic radicals along with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Is the UN involved in the fighting going on in Syria? If that is so then Americans are also involved in that.

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- THERAPTURCOMES
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:51pm
  This will be the early stages of the fulfillment of the Isaiah 17:1 prophecy and the fulfillment of Isaiah 17:1 will lead to the Psalm 83 war of which Israel will destroy the armies of the enemy.
  
  This is the time frame for the resurrection/rapture http://youtu.be/ahEVxIzlxwo
  
  We Christians need to be out there spreading the gospel (Romans 10:9-10) with what precious little time we have left
  
  Even the secular world knows something big is about tot happen
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 1:22pm
  The MBs seem to be calling for the destruction of the Egyptian Sphinx, and the Great Pyramids. The radicals are proud they destroyed the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:09pm
  Ellie: ” Now the only major power that supported Israel… .”
  
  That fact alone speaks volumes. Is it Israel or is it the rest of the world that is the problem? Defies commonsense.
  
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nana1212
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:37pm
I stand with Israel! If need be, hit ‘em below the belt. The Syrian govt. is crazy to think Israel is sheepish!

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:11pm
  You don’t stand for Israel. You’re a blabber. I think that you should go over and stand for Israel, because you’re certainly not loyal to America. Israel’s interests are not America’s interests.
  
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- Pearsontech
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:46pm
  Hey Jerk off I don’t see you running over there and siding with your Arab buddies either. And just because you get a large group of people saying something is right doesn’t make it right. Case in point the 2012 election. I wouldn’t care if the whole world was against Israel. The world is wrong and when you are burning in hell you will find out unfortunately then it will be too late.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:46pm
  Pearsontech, you’ve got me wrong. I say that both Arabs and Jews have their own issues, and that America shouldn’t be taking sides. The problem is, we have; unconditionally. Zionists are as extreme as any Muslim group.
  
  Minding our own business is the best foreign policy. They’re both bad guys, to use one of TZion’s descriptors.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:11pm
  @Jerk
  If America has taken sides unconditionally, why has our government been pressuring Israel into making dangerous and costly concessions to the Arabs even when the Arabs don’t hold up their end of the deal. Oslo was one of the worst things that could have happened because it put Arafat in control of all Palestinian affairs. Clinton was the one who pressured Israel into signing it and ever since Israel has watched as their supposed peace partner has failed to fulfill the majority of their obligations while Israel is pressured to meet its own obligations.
  
  Unconditional support is what Jordan, Syria, and Iraq gave Nasser in the 60s after he made clear his intention to destroy Israel.
  
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AJAYW
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:36pm
oh yea Israel let syria drop mortars on you – its ok obama told syria he wouldn’t let you protect yourself. BS

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:05pm
Obama loves these rebels (muslim brotherhood) more than he cares for 2/3 of America that don’t understand his “Global Collectivism”. He can lie about it all he wants. He must because people don’t want the real deal. The latter were targeted for “vengeance” using our electoral system. What more do you need to know people?

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Hickory
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:00pm
The Islamists are inching closer and closer to their ticket to paradise.

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Al J Zira
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:59am
So the rebels are begging for assistance and now they found it in the for of Israel. Israel should just throw their support behind the rebels, maybe it will help them gain an unlikely ally.

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- Edohiguma
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:26pm
  Neither side should be supported exclusively. If, then support both sides. That way it’s really win/win. Dictator Assad and the “rebel” jihadis will be busy killing each other and the rest of the world won’t have to put up with their fascist dreams.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:56am
And so it escalates, soon enough the war will erupt in full and Obama will have his excuse to attack and ensure the end of Israel as a nation.

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- RANGER1965
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:28pm
  Obama may desire the destruction of Israel, but for all his talk he is basically a timid sort. Besides, when Israel is involved all bets are off, because you’re not just fighting Israel, but that which stands behind Israel.
  
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- cessna152
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:37pm
  …and the book of Revelation will come to finality. Meaning “we win”! True freedom in Christ…Take me now.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 1:01pm
  He’ll just withhold any kind of aid from them, while Russia and China will supply Israel’s enemies.
  
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chips1
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:55am
Turning the other cheek didn’t seem to help. About time. Way to go Israel. Americans are behind you.

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- Angel_light
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:34pm
  We the people care about Israel, it would be nice if the tyrant in chief cared about our ally too.
  
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- recklessapathy
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 5:27am
  Yes. I support Israel. Keep your people safe, never back down.
  
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WireWizard
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:47am
Anyone who punches Israel in the nose will get no less than a knee to the nuts.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:56am
  As they should.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:20pm
  Direct hit …. Nice shooting … practice makes perfect .. and Israel has decades of defending themselves … I STAND WITH ISRAEL.
  
  Remember Benghazi.
  
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RANGER1965
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:47am
Cui Bono (Who benefits?)

If Israel strikes at the Syrian government, this will engender sympathy from the entire Middle East. No matter how each nation views Syria’s Assad, they will come together and support Assad over an Israeli sponsored attack.

So if I was Assad I would be ensuring that Israel is…”accidently” attacked on a daily basis.

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betsyyoung
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:42am
Good for Israel!! For Heaven’s sake, they have to protect themselves!!!!

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The_Jerk
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:37am
Surprise. That belligerent, warmongering, little nation of Israel attacks another nation?

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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:45am
  So if Mexico was shooting into the US wouldn’t you expect a response from us? Oh, wait. Never mind.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:48am
  Little NAVIN just can’t understand that when a nation has been shelled on numerous occasions. That nation also warned the other nation as well as the UN that it would eventually return fire. Allow me to say that once again, RETURN FIRE. The first time, Israel fired warning rounds into an unoccupied area. Now, that Israel has once again been fired upon, they now actually struck back. I guess NAVIN will call that a sneak attack. Apparently in your mind everybody except Israel can protect themselves, right?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:50am
  ROTH, You are using common sense so NAVIN will not understand. He so hates Israel and it’s inhabitants to the point that in his mind only Israel cannot and should not defend it’s borders.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:50am
  Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve, compare apples to apples and stop with the obfuscation. Operation Orchard. Israel is a belligerent, warmongering nation. Fact.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Orchard
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:57am
  @Jerk,
  
  Even if you were right? Which I’m not conceding, just hypothetically. Even if you were right, why do you care? In Africa, the map changes every week. There are countries fighting all the time. China/Taiwan/Japan. North/South Korea. India/Pakistan. All over the middle east. Argentina and UK (saw something that there might be smoke again there). Yadda yadda yadda. If nobody is shooting at you then why care? Or, why not the same outrage for all the non-Jewish “warmongers”?
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:58am
  I don’t know about NAVIN, but I hate Zionism, Nazism’s brother. You really should look into just a little bit of real history.
  
  Here’s a start from those who were there:
  http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/holocaust/gedalyaLiebermann.cfm
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:14pm
  NAVIN, Geez, the site you linked can’t even spell out the word GOD! Makes me suspicious from the git go. Frankly, what I read into this is that is another bunch of loons who hate Jews as much as you. The basic and original definition of Zionism simply is Jews who believe in the formations of the Jewish state of Israel. Take your HATE and peddle it somewhere else. Join the Dem-wits, they already hate Israel too.
  I’m well familiar with Operation Orchard, and I rooted for that success just as much as I rooted for their success in Operation Opera.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLZ2MTsNcMU
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bfe6CgYbH8
  
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- BTC55
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:14pm
  So what would be the proper response to being shelled by Syria? Send a strongly worded memo?
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:16pm
  And Wikileaks is your reference source? What does Snopes or Huffingington or Michael Moore have to say?
  
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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:20pm
  Jerk -When I scanned your last website you recommend it is not all clean.
  
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- Edohiguma
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:24pm
  What’s this “Nazism” you speak of? It’s Nationalsocialism. Nationalsozialismus in German. If you’re looking for that one’s brother, you can find it in socialism. It’s just the other side of the same medal that Karl Marx started to forge with his ridiculous little book. Hitler was heavily influenced by the anti-Semitism of not only a perceived “right wing” under Schönerer (which was really more nationalist than anything else, they were primarily against the Austro-Hungarian multi-cultural nightmare and wanted to join Germany as part of a united German nation) and socialists like Karl Kautzky (who dreamed of destroying the Jews in order to destroy capitalism.)
  
  From there it was a clear road into the Holocaust. Anyone claiming different needs to read the original sources, which most people won’t be able to do because most don’t speak German (and even with some German knowledge would utterly fail at the grammar, writing style and fonts used in those days.)
  
  It’s easier to blame the Zionists for it.
  
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- Edohiguma
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:26pm
  PS Jerk, I wish you some “proper” islamic cultural enrichment.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 1:08pm
  @Jerk
  Double standard again? Is Turkey also warmongering because they fired into Syria? Of course not because only Israel isn’t allowed to defend itself, right? Holding Israel and Jews to a different standard then the rest of the world is antisemitism by definition.
  
  And as for Nazism being Zionism’s brother, why don’t you try citing real history instead of the biased viewpoints of anitzionists. The facts are that while Israel allows Palestinians full rights as citizens, including voting rights, the Palestinians leaders are trying to build a state that, in their own words, would be a Jew-free zone.
  
  If Israel is so ethnocentric as you often claim, maybe you’d like to explain this:
  http://www.saveachildsheart.org/17-en/ChildrenWeHelp.aspx
  
  This is a non-profit Israeli program dedicated to performing life saving heart surgeries on children. A quote from their site: “Approximately 50% of the children are from the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Iraq and Morocco; more than 30% are from Africa; and the remaining are from Asia, Eastern Europe and the Americas.”
  
  In Nazi Germany, people were executed for being a “drain on society”. You really think there’s even a comparison to be made.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 1:23pm
  Surprise, jihad jerk supporting lalalalalala. Belligerent nazis are still nazis you pos. Fact.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:43pm
  Yeah, I think it was a rational and measured response by Israel. I can’t think of any other nation that would have shown as much restraint to be honest.
  
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