(CNN) Israeli aircraft struck Syrian artillery positions Saturday after a projectile fired from its northern war-torn neighbor struck the Golan Heights, the Israel Defense Forces said. The IDF said it was the third projectile to have crossed from Syria into the Golan this week, including one Sunday and another Wednesday. Earlier a projectile was launched from #Syria & hit the northern Israeli Golan Heights. Golan HeightsIsrael seized parts of the Golan Heights, a strategic, rocky plateau to its northeast, from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day WarThe international community considers the Golan Heights to be occupied territory and Israeli settlement-building there to be illegal. During the first Cabinet meeting held in the territory in April , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Golan Heights will remain permanently under his country's control.

Source: CNN September 10, 2016 16:07 UTC