[An Nahar] Israeli forces crossed into Syria on Monday and fired at four individuals who had "hurled objects along the border fence," wounding one of them, the army said.Israel, which regularly carries out air strikes inside Syria's territory, rarely publicly acknowledges cross-border operations.
According to an Israeli army statement, "observation soldiers spotted four suspects" near Haspin in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, without providing any specific information on what they were throwing.
Israel Defense Forces "soldiers were dispatched to the scene, crossed the border and operated... by firing at one of the suspects' legs," the statement added.
The maimed suspect, whose condition wasn't immediately clear, was "evacuated by helicopter to a hospital" in Israel, the army said without mentioning what happened to the other three.
Israel rarely comments on its military actions in Syria, save for operations in direct response to what the army considers immediate threats to Israel's illusory sovereignty.
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According to the Israel Defense Forces, soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras spotted four suspects hurling unidentified objects at the security barrier in the area.
The military later confirmed that the unidentified objects hurled at the border were anti-personnel mines.
In 2020, Israel accused Iran’s elite Quds Force of planting explosives in Israeli territory along the border.
In recent years Israel has conducted numerous strikes along the border targeting
Hezbollah and Iranian efforts to entrench themselves in the country.