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Following a rocket launch, Israel assaults Syria with artillery.

One of the six missiles that were fired from Syrian territory at Israel, according to the Israeli military, fell in the Golan Heights, which Israel has seized.

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One of the six missiles that were fired from Syrian territory at Israel, according to the Israeli military, fell in the Golan Heights, which Israel has seized.

A number of rockets were fired from Syrian territory towards northern Israel, but none of them hit Israel or resulted in any injuries or damage, according to the Israeli military, which claims to have started artillery operations on Syria.

Early on Sunday, there were cross-border clashes amid an uptick in violence in a number of places, including Gaza, Lebanon, occupied East Jerusalem, and the West Bank.

The Syrian government did not respond right away.

The Israeli military claimed to have attacked the Syrian rocket launchers with drone and artillery attacks.

In the early hours of Sunday, there were two missile launches from Syrian territory, according to the report. The first incident comprised three rockets, one of which landed in a field on the Golan Heights, which Israel had seized.

 Three rockets were used in the second attack, which again triggered sirens in northern Israel. There were no casualty reports.

Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Jihad movement, claimed responsibility for the rocket launches, according to Lebanon-based Al Mayadeen TV.

Rising Israeli-Palestinian tensions brought on by Israeli police raids on the Al-Aqsa mosque site serve as a backdrop to the Syrian missile firing.

The Temple Mount, a place of pilgrimage for both Muslims and Jews in Jerusalem’s Old City, has a long history of conflict, particularly when Jewish tourists disobey a ban on non-Muslim prayer there.

The raids took place at a time when religious zeal was at its peak because Ramadan fell on the same day as Passover, a Jewish festival, and Easter, a Christian holiday. Armed groups in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon launched a barrage of rockets into Israel in response to the violent images from the strikes that infuriated Palestinians who were fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.

The Israeli military then targeted a number of locations in southern Lebanon and Gaza that it said belonged to the Palestinian organization Hamas.

Israeli journalist and novelist Gideon Levy told Al Jazeera that relations with Israel’s neighbors had reached a breaking point.

He declared, “The situation is quite volatile.”

He referred to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-nationalist government, saying, “Unlike the previous years, we are facing a very radical government, which is on the one hand quite powerful, and on the other very fragile, because the most radical parts of it are pushing for action that might turn out to be a catastrophe.”

The Israeli military then targeted a number of locations in southern Lebanon and Gaza that it said belonged to the Palestinian organization Hamas.

Israeli journalist and novelist Gideon Levy told Al Jazeera that relations with Israel’s neighbors had reached a breaking point.

He declared, “The situation is quite volatile.”

He referred to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-nationalist government, saying, “Unlike the previous years, we are facing a very radical government, which is on the one hand quite powerful, and on the other very fragile, because the most radical parts of it are pushing for action that might turn out to be a catastrophe.”

“The ferocity of the scenes from the Al-Aqsa mosque was unprecedented in recent years, and I believe that any small match can now set the entire area on fire. Nobody can promise that it won’t happen, but we can only hope that it doesn’t,” he remarked.

Levy also pointed out that since the deadly earthquakes that struck northern Syria and southern Turkey on February 6, Israel has launched hundreds of attacks against what it claims are Iran-linked groups in Syria, bombing ports and airports, including the main Aleppo facility that had served as a conduit for aid shipments.

“Neither a public debate nor any information regarding the raids in Syria is there in Israel. Nobody is aware of the reason, the form, or the cost, according to Levy.

One thing is obvious. Israel is interfering with Syrian sovereignty and provoking Iran. How much longer will the Iranians and Syrians put up with this? Moreover, violence in Israel and the Palestinian Territories under Occupation has increased, adding to regional tensions.

According to the Palestinian health ministry, Israeli security forces shot and killed a 20-year-old Palestinian on Saturday in the northern occupied West Bank.

According to the ministry, Ahed Salim, 20, was shot in the chest and stomach in Azzun, close to Qalqilyah.

At a checkpoint at the entrance to the city of Al-Bireh earlier in the day, Israeli settlers threw stones at the cars of four Palestinians, injuring four more people.

The Wafa news agency in the town of Deir Ballout reported further Israeli settler assaults on Palestinian homes and vehicles.

Israel has also been on edge following a Friday car ramming in Tel Aviv that left an Italian man dead and five other visitors injured. The Tel Aviv attack happened hours after a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank shot and killed two Israeli sisters and injured their mother in close proximity to an illegal Israeli outpost.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has prolonged a closure preventing Palestinians from entering Israel from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip for the duration of Passover, and police have increased their presence in Jerusalem on the eve of delicate religious rituals amid the escalation.

On Friday and Saturday, however, mass prayers were authorized in the Al-Aqsa mosque.

On Sunday, when tens of thousands of Jews are anticipated to assemble at the Western Wall in the Al-Aqsa compound for the special Passover priestly blessing, more than 2,000 police officers will be stationed in Jerusalem.

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