The Zionist entity carried out overnight raids against alleged Syrian army targets, the Israeli military said Wednesday, saying Damascus was responsible for rocket fire that hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights

The Zionist entity carried out overnight raids against alleged Syrian army targets, the Israeli military said Wednesday, saying Damascus was responsible for rocket fire that hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
  
"Earlier today (Tuesday), rockets hit the Golan Heights," the Israeli occupation forces said. "In response, a short while ago the IDF targeted Syrian Army artillery posts," it added in a statement.
  
Military spokesman Peter Lerner said the occupation army "holds the Syrian government accountable for all attacks emanating from its land, and will operate by any means necessary to defend Israeli civilians". He added: "Such blatant breaches of Israeli sovereignty will not be tolerated."
  
The Zionist military said Tuesday that at least two rockets fired from Syria had hit the occupied Golan Heights, prompting Israeli forces to return fire. There were no immediate reports of casualties on the Israeli side.
  
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later warned the entity was "ready to respond with force" to any attack, while Lerner said the fire was "intentional, not spillover from the Syrian civil war" as has sometimes been the case in the past.

US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said before the Israeli attack that Washington had seen the news of Tuesday's rocket firing and did not want "an escalation of the situation." "We support Israel's legitimate right to self-defense and have been clear about our concerns over the regional instability caused by the crisis in Syria," she told reporters.
  
"We call upon all parties to avoid any action that would jeopardize the long-held ceasefire between Israel and Syria and abide by the 1974 disengagement of forces agreement," she added.