May 22, 2013
A non-deadly clash at the Syria-Israel border on Tuesday is precipitating heightened tensions of potential international conflict with war-torn Syria. The disturbance occurred along the Golan Heights according to The Australian, where last week Israeli government authorities claimed that strikes caused the closing down of a tourist site at Mount Hermon. Some Syrian troops reported that an Israeli tank that crossed over the border line was a struck, an event that the Israeli Defense Forces deny fiercely. The area involved is land that Israel annexed from Syria after in the 1967 Six Days War.
Lieutenant General Benny Gantz of the Israeli Defense Forces warned Syria with threatening language that if fire from outside the border is not stopped, they "will have to bear the consequences." While Syria's embattled ruler of the government Bashar Al-Assad has been accussed of war crimes by US government officials, other recent reports have shown that the US military has supplied covert aid to the so-called "rebels" who initiated a contained conflict that has now exploded into a far-reaching and bloody civil war. Some estimates of war related deaths in Syria show that 80,000 have died in the past year alone.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/israel-syrian-army-exchange-gunfire-20130522-2jzoh.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israeli-syrian-troops-trade-fire-in-golan-heights/2013/05/21/a5a78532-c21d-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html
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