The IDF revealed on Thursday that it launched 50 attacks on targets located in Syria over 2020.
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Released in an annual statistics report Thursday, the Israeli military said that most of the strikes targeted Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah or Iranian-backed military units in the war-ravaged country.
One Syrian soldier was killed and three others were wounded in the latest attack attributed to Israel which took place on Tuesday.
The IDF, as per military policy, has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in Tuesday's incident.
The report also noted that two attempts by Hezbollah to attack Israel were thwarted by the IDF over the course of the year.
According to the data released, some 176 rockets were fired at Israel this year; of those that targeted cities, 93% were intercepted.
There was a decrease in terror funding: from 972,000 shekels ($300,000) last year to NIS 675,000 ($209,000) this year.
The report noted an increase in terrorist activity in 2020, saying that 60 terror incidents took place compared to the 51 that occurred the year before.
Judea and Samaria saw a slight increase in the number of stone-throwing incidents: 1,500 this year compared to 1,469 in 2019.
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Some 2,277 Palestinian terror suspects have been arrested across the West Bank, compared to the 2,328 last year. There was an uptake in shooting accidents: 31 incidents this year and 19the year before. Some 50 workshops closed in 2020, compared to the 14 that closed in 2019.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
