Israel attacks Syrian posts after stray shells

Shells hit an open area in northern Golan Heights, but caused no injuries

Israel said it had attacked Syrian military targets on Sunday after stray shells from fighting in Syria’s civil war landed inside the IsraeliOccupied Golan Heights.

The Syrian shells hit an open area in the occupied Golan Heights, causing no injuries, and in retaliation the Israeli military said it “targeted two artillery positions and an ammunitions truck belonging to the Syrian regime”.

Syria’s military later said in a statement that Israel had attacked one of its military posts in support of terrorist groups, as it describes the rebels it is fighting in that area.

It was the second day in a An eight-year-old Syrian girl who drew global attention with her Twitter updates from besieged Aleppo was yesterday named one of the most influential people on the internet by magazine.

Other people on this year’s list included British author J.K. Rowling, pop singer Rihanna, celebrity Kim Kardashian, and US President Donald Trump.

makes its annual choice based on those with global influence on social media and in generating news headlines.

Helped by her mother Fatemah, who manages the @AlabedBana Twitter account, Bana Alabed uploaded pictures and videos of life amid the Syrian war, gaining around 365,000 followers on the microblogging site since last September.

“I can’t go out because of the bombing please stop bombing us,” Bana wrote when she first joined Twitter on September 24, 2016.

“Aleppo is very good city but we need peace. I want to live like a child but instead I am stressed now,” she wrote.

Last December, Bana, who was seven at the time, and her family were evacuated safely from the rebel-held eastern part of Aleppo to Turkey, where they were greeted by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at his palace. row that errant fire from Syria drew Israeli retaliation.

Israel has largely stayed on the sidelines of Syria’s civil war, keeping watch over the Golan Heights frontier and occasionally carrying out air strikes or returning fire if there is a specific threat. Intense fighting has rocked the Quneitra province of Syria, adjacent to the occupied Golan Heights, since rebels there launched an attack on Saturday.