Two civilians were injured Friday, August 12 in Israeli shell fire on the province of Quneitra, in southern Syria near the occupied Golan Heights, indicates the official agency Sana.
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Two civilians were injured when an Israeli occupation force tank fired two shells near the village of Hamidiya
,” Sana reports.
Israel has so far not reacted officially.
An Israeli army spokesman told AFP that he refused to "
comment on foreign media reports
".
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) confirmed the attack, stating that the two victims - whose identity it could not specify - were in an area bordering the Golan Heights occupied by the Jewish state since 1967.
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According to the OSDH, which has a vast network of sources in Syria, groups linked to Lebanese Hezbollah - a great ally of Damascus and sworn enemy of Israel - are active in the area.
The Syrian army regained control of Quneitra in the summer of 2018. Since the beginning of the war in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syrian territory, targeting positions of Syrian regime soldiers as well as Iranian forces. and Lebanese Hezbollah.
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