False Alarm Sends Israeli Golan Residents into Bomb Shelters

Israeli girls walk into a shelter as a siren is heard as part of an army drill simulating
AP/Sebastian Scheiner

The Times of Israel reports: Incoming rocket sirens blared across the Israeli Golan Heights in the predawn hours of Wednesday morning, sending residents of the area scrambling to bomb shelters in what was later determined to have been a false alarm, the army said.

The military would not say what triggered the system shortly after midnight. The warning sirens came amid a period of intense fighting between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s army and rebel forces in the Syrian village of Nawa, near the border with Israel.

The sensitive alarm system may have been triggered by the fighting there. Earlier on Tuesday, more than a dozen civilians were killed in airstrikes in Syria’s southwest, near the Israeli Golan Heights, a war monitor said.

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