No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks from Syria on the Golan Heights and the Galilee, so it’s still not possible to say with certainty who was responsible for it. However, the range and direction indicate that this was not an accidental “spillover” from internal (Syrian) fighting on the Golan Heights. More likely, this was a carefully planned attack by Islamic Jihad, under the direction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, as revenge for the assassination of five members of Hezbollah three weeks ago.

Syria reported at the time that five people were killed in the Syrian Golan Heights, when a convoy of three vehicles traveling towards the Druze village of Khader, were attacked from the air. According to a report by the Syrian Observatory For Human Rights, two Hezbollah members and three Druze people were killed in the attack. All of them were members of the “Syrian opposition” militia, led by Druze murderer Samir Kuntar. The Druze were from Khader village and the Syrian organization, usually reliable, attributed the attack to an Israeli drone that launched missiles which completely destroyed one vehicle traveling in a convoy, and caused damage to two other vehicles.

The Syrian news agency claimed that Kuntar was the target of an assassination attempt in the Golan, but he was not killed because he was not in the convoy, but five of his men were, with whom he planned to carry out attacks in Israel.

According to Syrian and foreign officials the operation was intended to prevent the same attacks that Iran is responsible for. The network headed by Kuntar (the murderer of the Haran family of Naharia in the 70s who was released in prisoner exchange deal) and Mustafa Mughniyeh (son of terrorist commander Imad Mughniyeh who was assassinated in Damascus) has already made several attempts to attack the Golan Heights under the command of Hezbollah and the Iranians.

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