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\"\"<\/a>IDF strikes IS target in Syria, day after killing 4 IS-affiliated terrorists following clash<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

JUDAH ARI GROSS AND TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Military says it took out compound used as base for attack on IDF troops Sunday by members of Khalid ibn al-Walid Army in Golan Heights<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"AnAn Israel Air Force F-16 fighter jet fires off flares during a demonstration on December 31, 2015. (Hagar Amibar\/Israel Air Force\/Flickr)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\nThe Israeli Air Force struck a military target belonging to the Islamic State terror group on the Syrian side of the southern Golan Heights overnight Sunday-Monday, the military said in a statement Monday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

The raid came after an Israeli airstrike killed four members of an Islamic State-affiliated terrorist group in southern Syria on Sunday morning, following a clash near the border. No Israeli soldiers were injured in the exchange, the army said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The military said that the additional airstrike Monday was also in response to the attack on Israeli forces on Sunday when, while conducting an \u201cambush operation,\u201d according an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson, soldiers from the Golani Brigade\u2019s reconnaissance unit had come under attack from small arms fire after crossing the security fence with Syria while remaining inside Israeli territory. They returned fire, but soon came under attack from mortar shells.<\/span><\/p>\n

The IDF said Monday that the target in the overnight airstrike was an \u201cabandoned UN building that has been used by the Islamic State as an operations center along the border in the southern Syrian Golan Heights,\u201d adding that \u201cthe compound was the base for yesterday\u2019s attack against IDF forces.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an additional response to yesterday\u2019s attack, and it is aimed at preventing the terrorists from returning to the installation which poses a significant threat,\u201d the IDF said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The IDF \u201cwill not hesitate to act against terror groups that operate against the State of Israel,\u201d the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n

In its immediate response to the attack on Sunday, the Israel Air Force targeted a truck \u201cthat had some sort of machine gun on top of it\u201d and killed the four terrorists who were riding in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a short exchange, but it was productive,\u201d IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The incident Sunday occurred at approximately 8:30 a.m., east of the Avnei Eitan community in the southern Golan Heights, the army said.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the IDF, the four men were members of the Khalid ibn al-Walid Army, formerly known as the Yarmouk Martyrs\u2019 Brigade, a terrorist group in Syria that is connected with the Islamic State.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe army will not tolerate any impairment to its sovereignty and will respond severely to any attempt to damage it,\u201d the army said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

The army would not go into details about the Golani reconnaissance unit\u2019s ambush, saying only that it was \u201cplanned by operational intelligence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The incident was the first major confrontation between Israeli forces and Islamic State affiliated terrorists in the Golan, though Israel has clashed with other fighters on the Syrian side of the border several times.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking at a weekly government meeting shortly after the incident, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that Israel \u201cwon\u2019t allow Islamic State figures or other enemy actors, under the cover of the war in Syria, to set up next to our borders.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Both the IS-affiliated Khalid ibn al-Walid Army and the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly the al-Nusra Front, which is linked to al-Qaeda, have actually been present on Israel\u2019s borders for years, though they and the IDF had maintained a \u201clive and let live\u201d relationship until Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Syrian Golan has been the site of intense fighting in recent years between Assad regime forces and the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, though the front on the border with Israel has been relatively quiet in recent months after seeing intense bouts of violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli officials fear Hezbollah and Iran\u2019s al-Quds Force, which are allied with Syrian leader Bashar Assad, are aiming at using the area to open a new front against Israel in any future conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since March 2011, when the war broke out, dozens of mortars have landed in Israeli territory as a result of spillover fighting. The IDF often responds to fire that crosses into Israel by striking Syrian army posts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel maintains a policy of holding Damascus responsible for all fire from Syria into Israel regardless of the source.<\/span><\/p>\n

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