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ISRAEL attacked Syrian army positions overnight yesterday after stray fire from the Syrians damaged a border fence in the occupied Golan Heights.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said two Syrian targets were hit overnight after their fire damaged Israel’s security fence on the Golan, occupied since the 1967 six-day war.
Israel has previously used shelling by the Western-backed rebel groups that control most of the frontier as a pretext to attack Syrian military targets.
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