BEIRUT: Israeli shelling killed four people in southern Syria on Tuesday, Syria's state news agency reported, after the Israeli military said its troops had clashed with militants there who had opened fire on them. On Tuesday, the Israeli military said militants in southern Syria opened fire towards Israeli troops, without specifying whether the Israeli troops were within Syrian territory when they were targeted. The Israeli military said its troops returned fire and that an Israeli warplane struck the militants. It gave no details on casualties but said "hits were identified".
Syria's state news agency said Israeli tank fire on Koya, a town in the southern province of Daraa, had killed four people and wounded others, including a woman. A Syrian security source said the death toll was expected to rise. Earlier, Israel said it had attacked two military bases in Homs province in central Syria. The European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned on Tuesday that Israel's strikes into Syria "risk further escalation". — Reuters
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