JERUSALEM, 07 January 2022, (TON): The military said “Israeli tanks fired on suspects along the Syrian border in the Golan Heights after they were detected near its forces.”

The army said in a brief statement “a short time ago during army activity in the Golan Heights, soldiers identified suspects close to a military position and fired in their direction from tanks.”

It added “the suspects then moved away into Syrian territory.”

In the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel seized part of the strategic Golan Heights, bordered by Lebanon, which patrols there from Syria.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitor, said a fire broke out in the forest near the village and that there had been Israeli helicopters present, but did not mention casualties.