Israel military chief visits border amid tension

Israel's military chief of staff visited country's norrn border on Saturday after a tensions in area between Lebanon and Syria.

Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi was seen in briefings with officers and soldiers in a video from Israeli military.

visit comes after Israeli military said its attack helicopters struck several positions of Syrian army on Friday in response to unspecified munitions that were fired on Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

targets in sourn Syria included observation posts and intelligence collection systems, according to a statement from military.

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate for killing of its fighters in Syria, leing to Israel sending infantry reinforcements to its norrn border with Lebanon in recent days.

Also on Friday, Israeli military said an explosion on Syrian side of frontier damaged a building and a vehicle in Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in 1967 and later annexed, but y declined to provide furr details.

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