The Israeli navy says it has launched artillery assaults on Syria after a number of rockets had been fired from Syrian territory in the direction of northern Israel, none of which prompted injury or casualties.

The cross-border exchanges early on Sunday got here as violence escalates on a number of fronts, together with in Gaza, Lebanon, occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Financial institution.

There was no fast remark from the Syrian authorities.

The Israeli navy stated it had launched artillery strikes and a drone towards the rocket launchers in Syria.

There had been two rounds of rockets launches from Syrian territory within the early hours of Sunday, it stated. The primary concerned three rockets, certainly one of which landed in a discipline within the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.

The second launch, which additionally concerned three rockets, set off sirens in northern Israel. There have been no studies of casualties.

Lebanon-based Al Mayadeen TV stated the rocket launches had been claimed by Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad motion.

The rocket fireplace from Syria comes towards the backdrop of hovering Israeli-Palestinian tensions triggered by Israeli police raids on the Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

The positioning in Jerusalem’s Outdated Metropolis, holy to each Muslims and Jews, who comprehend it as Temple Mount, has been a longstanding flashpoint, notably over the difficulty of Jewish guests defying a ban on non-Muslim prayer within the mosque compound.

The raids got here at a time of heightened non secular fervor – with Ramadan coinciding with the Jewish vacation of Passover and the Christian Easter celebrations. Violent scenes from the assaults outraged Palestinians observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan and prompted armed teams in Lebanon and within the Gaza Strip to fireplace a barrage of rockets into Israel.

The Israeli navy then bombed a number of websites that it stated belonged to the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza and southern Lebanon.

Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist and creator, advised Al Jazeera that tensions between Israel and its neighbours had been at a essential level.

“The state of affairs is extraordinarily explosive,” he stated.

“Not like the previous years, we face a really radical authorities, which is one hand fairly highly effective, and on the opposite very fragile, as a result of essentially the most radical components of it are pushing for motion that may end up right into a disaster,” he stated, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-nationalist authorities.

“The scenes from the Al-Aqsa mosque had been scenes not seen lately of their brutality and I believe that any small match can set fireplace now to the entire space. Hopefully it is not going to occur, however no one can assure this is not going to occur,” he stated.

Levy additionally famous Israel has been finishing up lots of of assaults towards what it says are Iran-linked teams in Syria, bombing ports and airports, together with the principle facility in Aleppo that had been a conduit for assist shipments because the lethal earthquakes that hit northern Syria and southern Turkey on February 6.

“There is no such thing as a public argument about this [raids in Syria] in Israel and no details about it in Israel. No person is aware of why and what kind and what’s the value,” Levy stated.

“One factor is obvious. Israel is violating Syrian sovereignty and Israel is taking part in with fireplace with Iran. How lengthy will the Syrians and the Iranians tolerate this?”

The regional tensions additionally come as violence has additionally escalated in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Within the northern occupied West Financial institution, Israeli safety forces on Saturday shot and killed a 20-year-old Palestinian, based on the Palestinian well being ministry.

Ahed Salim, 20, was hit within the chest and abdomen by stay fireplace in Azzun close to Qalqilyah, the ministry stated.

Earlier within the day, 4 Palestinians had been additionally wounded when Israeli settlers hurled stones at their automobiles at a checkpoint on the entrance to town of Al-Bireh.

The Wafa information company reported extra Israeli settler assaults on Palestinian properties and automobiles within the city of Deir Ballout.

Israel has additionally been on edge after a car-ramming in Tel Aviv on Friday that killed an Italian man and wounded 5 different vacationers. The Tel Aviv assault got here hours after a Palestinian man shot and killed two Israeli sisters and wounded their mom close to an unlawful Israeli settlement within the occupied West Financial institution.

Amid the escalation, Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant has prolonged a closure barring entrance to Israel for Palestinians from the occupied West Financial institution and Gaza Strip at some stage in Passover, whereas police beefed up forces in Jerusalem on the eve of delicate non secular celebrations.

Mass prayers, nonetheless, had been permitted on the Al-Aqsa mosque on Friday and Saturday.

Greater than 2,000 police had been anticipated to be deployed in Jerusalem on Sunday – when tens of 1000’s of Jews are anticipated to assemble on the Western Wall on the Al-Aqsa compound for the particular Passover priestly blessing.