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Israel says Syrian shells injure 2 UN peacekeepers in Golan Heights

Xinhua, May 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

Two United Nations peacekeeping soldiers were injured in the Golan Heights by Syrian mortar shells, a Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson confirmed to Xinhua.

The spokesperson did not say how serious the injuries were, but Israel Radio reported that the peacekeepers were slightly wounded.

Several mortar shells hit Israeli-occupied Golan Heights territories, where the United Nations Disengagement Observance Force (UNDOF) is deployed.

The UNDOF has been deployed in the region in accordance with a UN Security Council resolution following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, under an agreement of disengagement between Israeli and Syrian forces on the Golan Heights.

According to the IDF spokesperson, the shells appear to be errant fire from fighting between Syrian factions.

On April 28, two mortar shells fired from Syria hit the Golan Heights, landing in open fields near the Israeli community of Odem and Quneitra, also an apparent spillover from the fighting in Syria, where fierce battles were ongoing between forces supporting and against President Bashar al-Assad. Endit