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A commander in the regional alliance supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Reuters that Israel's air force had struck an army base at Al-Kiswah without causing casualties.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported later that nine fighters belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps or pro-Iranian Shiite militias were killed in the attack.
Asked about those statements, an Israeli military spokeswoman said: "We do not respond to such foreign reports."
Israel's Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman held security consultations with the heads of the defense establishment at the Kirya Military Headquarters in Tel Aviv.
The military instructed local governments on Tuesday to open bomb shelters to residents of the Golan Heights following the identification of “abnormal movements of Iranian forces in Syria.”
The army also said it raised preparedness of “troops for an attack” and deployed air defenses in the north of the country.
Reporting by: Anna Ahronhiem for The Jerusalem Post