ISRAEL hit some 50 military targets in Syria after Iranian rockets fired towards its forces sparked a sharp escalation between the long-term enemies.
The incident came after weeks of rising tensions and followed US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, a move Israel had long advocated.
It was one of the largest Israeli military operations in recent years and its biggest such raid against Iranian targets.
Israeli news service Haaretz reports a military source as saying this attack was the largest carried out by Israel since it signed on a disengagement agreement with Syria in May 1974.
Read the report by Jamie Seidel (AFP) in Perth Now.