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Syria threatens to target settlements in Golan Heights

Syria will strike back if Israel attacks again, and could hit Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights, Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara told a British Sunday newspaper.

Syria did not retaliate after Israel raided what it called a "terrorist camp" near Damascus earlier this month, its first strike on Syria in three decades.

"After we were attacked, we acted in a responsible way and went to the United Nations, and a majority of our people supported that," Shara told the Sunday Telegraph.

"But if we are attacked again the people will not stand for it, and we will have to carry out the will of the people," he said.

"We have many cards that have not been played. Don't forget there are many Israeli settlements in the Golan. I am not exaggerating but I am describing things as they might happen."

Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967 and annexed the territory in 1981. The two countries are officially still at war.

Israel struck Syrian territory on Oct. 5 after a suicide bomber killed 19 people in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.
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