{"id":32666,"date":"2017-04-24T06:14:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T06:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=32666"},"modified":"2017-04-24T06:14:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T06:14:51","slug":"israeli-attack-on-syria-military-camp-kills-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=32666","title":{"rendered":"Israeli attack on Syria military camp kills 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"index\"DAMASCUS: An Israeli attack on a Syrian training camp near the Golan Heights killed three members of a pro-government militia on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Al Fawwar camp in Syria\u2019s south-western Quneitra province is used by the National Defence Forces (NDF), which command some 90,000 fighters across Syria.<\/p>\n

The NDF said the attack struck the military camp, which sits near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights \u2013 territory that Israel captured from Syria in a 1967 war.<\/p>\n

An NDF official said two fighters were also wounded in the Israeli attack, but it was unclear whether the damage was inflicted by an air strike or shelling.<\/div>\n
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the attack had targeted a “weapons warehouse” in the camp. Israel\u2019s army declined to comment on the attack.<\/p>\n

Another Syrian source inside the training camp said that at around 6am, “security guards at the camp saw what looked like three fireballs coming towards the camp”.<\/p>\n

“Then there were several consecutive blasts because of the explosion of ammunition warehouses” that firefighters worked hard to extinguish, the source said, adding that they were “Israeli rockets” but could not specify what kind of missiles may have been used.<\/div>\n
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On Friday, the Israeli army said it targeted positions inside Syria in retaliation for mortar fire that hit the northern part of the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n

\u00a0At the time, Syria\u2019s official news agency Sana said Israel caused damage when it struck a Syrian army position in the province of Quneitra on the Golan plateau.<\/div>\n
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Rebel groups fighting president Bashar Al Assad\u2019s government in the Syrian conflict hold swathes of Quneitra, while the army and pro-government forces control another part of the province.<\/p>\n

The Syrian government labels rebel groups and extremists fighting the regime as “terrorists” and accuses Israel of backing them.<\/p>\n

Israel seized 1,200 square kilometres of the Golan from Syria in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community.<\/div>\n
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Around 510 square kilometres of the Golan are under Syrian control.<\/p>\n

The two countries are still technically at war, although the border remained largely quiet for decades until 2011, when the Syrian conflict broke out.<\/p>\n

The Israeli side is hit sporadically by what are usually deemed to be stray rounds, and Israel has recently taken to opening fire in retaliation.<\/p>\n

* Agence France-Presse and Reuters<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAMASCUS: An Israeli attack on a Syrian training camp near the Golan Heights killed three members of a pro-government militia on Sunday. The Al Fawwar camp in Syria\u2019s south-western Quneitra province is used by the National Defence Forces (NDF), which command some 90,000 fighters across Syria. The NDF said the attack struck the military camp, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":32667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n