Analysis: Mortar shells over the Golan Heights, accident or border threat?

Regardless of who was behind the shells intercepted yesterday, official Israeli policy is to hold the Assad regime responsible for its territory and enforce its sovereignty.

A member of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) looks through binoculars at Mount Bental, an observation post in the Israeli Golan Heights

(photo credit: REUTERS)

ByYOSSI MELMAN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 03:31

Analysis: Mortar shells over the Golan Heights, accident or border threat?

Regardless of who was behind the shells intercepted yesterday, official Israeli policy is to hold the Assad regime responsible for its territory and enforce its sovereignty.

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Analysis: Mortar shells over the Golan Heights, accident or border threat?

Regardless of who was behind the shells intercepted yesterday, official Israeli policy is to hold the Assad regime responsible for its territory and enforce its sovereignty.

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