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13-year-old killed in Golan Heights in cross-border fire from Syria
13-year-old killed in Golan Heights in cross-border fire from Syria | JPost | Israel News.
( This may be the final straw… – JW )
LAST UPDATED: 06/22/2014 12:21
A 13-year-old boy was killed and two other people were injured in the Golan Heights Sunday in cross-border fire from inside Syria that hit a civilian vehicle carrying out routine maintenance work for the Defense Ministry.
IDF tanks immediately returned fire at Syrian army positions in response to what an IDF source said appeared to be a deliberate attack on the truck.
One of those injured in the attack was in serious condition, while the other suffered light injuries. The teenage boy killed in the attack, Muhammad Karaka from Arraba in the lower Galilee, had been accompanying his father, a contract worker who was carrying out work at the border for the Defense Ministry.
Following the attack, an army source said it found what appeared to be a hole in the frontier fence. Army sources said they did not yet know whether the attack took the form of a shell, or another type of weapon.
“We know that the attack was carried out from an area under the control of Syrian rebels, but we’re not at all sure that this was a Syrian rebel attack,” said a source.
“It seems this attack was the result of direct fire [on the truck],” the source said.
Shelling from the Syrian civil war has occasionally spilled over onto the Golan, including what Israel has said were deliberate attacks on its troops.
While the Syrian army has a presence in the Golan, some areas are controlled by rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad, including al-Qaida-inspired militants hostile to the Jewish state.
Israel says Hezbollah guerrillas from Lebanon are also operating, on Assad’s behalf, on the Golan. Israeli officials have voiced concern that Israel will increasingly become a target during and after the Syrian conflict.
Last March, four Israeli soldiers were wounded in a roadside bombing along the Golan frontier. Israel responded to that incident by launching air strikes against Syrian military sites.
Reuters contributed to this report.
WarSclerotic 
June 22, 2014 at 4:09 PM
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13-year-old killed in Golan Heights in cross-border fire from Syria
June 22, 2014 at 5:14 PM
The day is approaching when Israels leadership has to stop to play the game according to her enemies and socalled friends. We all know what I mean : Israels worst enemy goes nuclear and builds / arms / controls massiv forces around Israel while Israels socalled friends support exactly this and other enemies by just letting them do whatever they want.My position concerning the present WH – team is clear : their obvious goal is to destroy the present US society, then also actively / passivly Israel). Israels leadership must do what it has to do to protect the nation – whatever the world says is irrelevant : the world was silent during the Shoah, the Allied Forces bombed chirurgically AROUND the camps, the world today turns increasingly antisemitic and anti Israel. So, who cares what they say – we know they are liars and Jew haters, most of them. Assuming Israel would be destroyed ( which the Guardian of Israel will not allow ! ), in a couple of days even the western world would have forgotten about it and become friends ( if not already ) with the attackers – thats cristal clear ! Am Israel chai !
June 22, 2014 at 7:09 PM
I agree but it looks like the shia sunni conflict is escalating. This might drag Iran into a new “Vietnam” war in Iraq. Wait and see until tens of thousands of iranian soldiers are inside Iraq. Then is the time.
I guess Obama just wants to sell more arms to Iraq and I hope he just pretends being interested in cooperating with Iran.
June 23, 2014 at 2:06 AM
Forgive me if I doubt that anything substantive will happen.