The Israeli military said today it scored "direct hits" on targets in Syria after responding to stray mortar fire from its northern neighbour.
This comes as a Syrian fighter jet bombed a rebel-held area near the Turkish border on Monday, killing at least six people and wounding a dozen others, while a rocket-propelled grenade landed in Turkey, officials and witnesses said.
The incidents raised fears that Syria's neighbours could be dragged into its ongoing conflict.
The Israeli military, shown conducting an exercise in the Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights in September, said Monday it fired into Syria in response to stray mortar fire from its northern neighbour. (Ariel Schalit/Associated Press) The Israeli military says its tanks opened fire on targets in Syria on Monday after the mortar round landed in an open area in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.
The military officials say "Syrian mobile artillery" was hit. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity under military guidelines, gave no further details.
The incident marked the second straight day that Israel has responded to fire from Syria.
The mortars are believed to be coming from fighting in Syria's civil war, and Israel says the shells do not appear to be aimed at Israeli targets. Nonetheless, Israel has promised a tough response if the fire continues.
Syrian bombing near Turkish border kills at least 6
Meanwhile, some 10 metres away from the Turkish border, an Associated Press video journalist saw a Syrian fighter jet bomb an area near the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn. The bombing killed at least six people, and wounded a dozen others, officials and witnesses said. A rocket-propelled grenade also landed in Turkey.
Last week, the rebels overran three security compounds in Ras al-Ayn, located in the predominantly Kurdish oil-producing northeastern province of al-Hasaka, wresting control from the regime forces.
An official at the local mayor's office said Turkish ambulances ferried 18 wounded Syrians to a hospital across the border in the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar. Six of them died. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters. He said the death toll from the attack was expected to rise.
Residents of the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn run as smoke rises after an airstrike on the town, as seen from the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, Sanliurfa province, on Monday. (Murad Sezer/Reuters) Hours later, a Syrian helicopter was seen flying over Ras al-Ayn, prompting rebels to fire on it with machine-guns. The helicopter returned fire but it was not clear if there were any casualties.
Earlier Monday, a rocket-propelled grenade round landed on an empty field near Ceylanpinar. No one was injured, the official said. Turkey has been responding with fire to shells and mortars fired from Syria that land on its territory, but there was no immediate Turkish retaliation, according to the official.
The force of the blast from the aerial bombing shattered windows in Ceylanpinar, in southeastern Turkey, the official said. A few people were injured in Ceylanpinar, mostly from broken glass and shrapnel. The private Dogan news agency said a Turkish soldier guarding the border area was also hurt.
The violence in Syria has killed more than 36,000 people since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime began in March 2011. Hundreds of thousands have fled the fighting into neighbouring Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.
A surge of 11,000 more Syrians escaped into Turkey on Friday following the fighting at Ras al-Ayn.
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