Israel reported shelling from Syrian positions and retaliatory strike

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced an artillery strike on Syrian territory in response to rockets launched from there.

The defense ministry did not name the number of missiles launched, noting that some of them reached Israeli territory and fell in open areas.

“IDF forces responded with artillery and mortar fire at the source of the launches in Syrian territory,” the army said in a statement in X.

On the morning of October 7, the Palestinian group Hamas began military operations against Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) responded by launching Operation Iron Swords, striking hundreds of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli government announced that the country had entered a state of war.

In a show of solidarity with the Palestinians, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah on the morning of October 8 fired at three Israeli posts in the area of ​​the so-called Shebaa farm in the northeast of the country, a disputed territory captured by Israel from Syria in 1967. Israel carried out retaliatory airstrikes against the positions of Lebanese militants. October 9, Lebanese Foreign Ministry statedthat Hezbollah promised not to conduct military operations against Israel unless it begins to “persecute” Lebanon.

According to the Israeli Embassy in the United States, the attack by the Palestinian radical organization Hamas in Israel killed about 1,000 people and injured more than 3,400. Among the dead are four Russian citizens, the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv reported earlier. On the evening of October 9, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported 687 deaths in the Gaza Strip, including 140 children. About 3,800 people were injured.