Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The Israeli Army hit targets in Syria early on Monday morning in a response to a cross-border attack in which a missile was fired from Syrian territory into the Golan on Sunday. A 14-year-old Israeli boy was killed in the original attack.

The 14-year-old boy was killed and two other people were wounded when an anti-tank missile, fired from inside Syria, hit the civilian vehicle belonging to a contractor carrying out routine maintenance work for the Defense Ministry.

Israeli Army tanks immediately returned fire at Syrian Army positions in response to what an Israeli Army source said appeared to be a deliberate attack on the truck.

The casualty was Muhammad Karaka, of the lower Galilee village of Arrabe, whose father Fahmi, a contractor, was wounded in the attack. Karaka had been accompanying his father on his first day off school for the summer vacation.

Following the attack, an army source said it found what appeared to be a hole in the frontier fence, a result of the missile piercing the barrier.

“We know that the attack was carried out from an area under the control of Syrian rebels, but we’re not at all sure that this was a Syrian rebel attack,” a source had said shortly after the attack, before suspicions appeared to fall on the pro-Assad camp.

*JPOST