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© Baz Ratner / ReutersSmoke rises during fighting in the Druze village of Khadr in Syria, as seen from the Israeli side of the border fence between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near Majdal Shams, June 16, 2015.
Syrian state television has confirmed Israeli strikes on Golan Heights, Reuters reports. Israel previously said that the bombardment was a response to rockets fired at its territory from Syria.

Israel fired "several missiles," which targeted a transportation center and a public building in a Syrian area of the Golan Heights, Quneitra, a military source told Syrian state TV.

According to the IDF, earlier rockets came to Israel from the central part of the Golan Heights controlled by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces.

"The [Israeli] army sees Syria as responsible for the fire, and it will pay the price for it," the IDF statement said.

The Israeli army also said that the rockets were fired by the Islamic Jihad movement "with Iranian funding and direction."

Earlier in the day the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that there had been casualties on the ground in Syria due to Israeli strikes, but there has been no official confirmation of this.