Israel's military said it targeted two pieces of artillery on Tuesday in an air strike in southern Syria near a boundary established by a 1974 ceasefire.
"A short while ago, two cannons in southern Syria that constituted a threat to the State of Israel were struck by the [Israeli military] in the area of Khan Arnabeh in southern Syria," a military statement said.
"The [Israeli military] will not allow a military threat from southern Syria and will operate against the threat," it added.
Khan Arnabah lies on the edge of the demilitarized buffer zone that had long separated Israeli and Syrian forces until Israeli troops deployed there after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December.
Tuesday's strike comes a day after Israel's military said it had targeted military sites in southern Syria.
Syria's health ministry reported three deaths in an Israeli strike near the southern city of Daraa on Monday.
Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes in Syria since the ousting of Assad by Islamist-led rebels.
Netanyahu has said that southern Syria must be completely demilitarised, warning his government will not accept the presence of the forces of the new authorities near Israeli territory.
Even before Assad's fall, during the Syrian civil war that broke out in 2011, Israel carried out hundreds of strikes in the country, mainly on government forces and Iranian-linked targets.
AFP
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