Three rockets fired from Syria into Israel, says Israeli army

(CNN) — Three rockets were fired into Israel from Syria, according to the Israeli military.

One landed in the southern Golan Heights, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said, also indicating that they did not need to intercept the rockets, according to a publication in Twitter.

Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed the narrow strip of land in 1981. The Golan Heights is considered occupied territory under international law and UN Security Council resolutions.

The rocket fires come amid heightened tensions in the region following Israeli police raids on the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Israel attacked Palestinian militant targets in southern Lebanon and Gaza early Friday, after dozens of rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory.

In a separate event on Saturday night, the IDF killed a 20-year-old Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank city of Azzoun, according to the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry.

The man, Ayed Azam Salim, was killed by Israeli bullets to the abdomen and chest in the Qalqilya district, according to the ministry.

“After routine activity, several suspects threw an explosive device towards IDF soldiers in the town of Azzun,” the IDF said in a statement. The soldiers fired “live ammunition at them” and one person was injured, the statement added. No IDF soldiers were injured, according to the information.

Salim was taken to a hospital in Qalqilya where he died, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

On Friday, one person was killed and seven others injured in a car attack in Tel Aviv. Police said the vehicle was driven by a 45-year-old resident of Kfar Kasem, a predominantly Arab city east of Tel Aviv.

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The victim, an Italian tourist, was identified by Israeli and Italian authorities as Alessandro Parini. Italian media said he was a 35-year-old lawyer. Israeli authorities described the incident as a “terrorist attack.”

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