Same @ https://www.timesofisrael.com/six-soldiers-hurt-in-gun-battle-as-idf-detains-terror-suspects-in-southern-syria/ .

The military said that the pair had previously launched rockets at Israel.

it is all "the IDF says" and there is no really independent reporting going on in southern Syria. The occupation of southern Syria is another failure by the UN and the international community, mainly the US, to reign in the activities of the IDF/rabid right wing government in Israel. Independent journalists have been historically heavily restricted, harassed, targeted and killed by the IDF. That didn't come without orders despite any denials from the government.

It is particularly galling since if Israeli journalists reporting from conflict areas in Africa, Myanmar etc. were treated similarly the howling, retaliation and demands coming from Jerusalem would be off the charts. It is this kind of duplicity that other nations and people around the world find so obviously self-serving, hypocritical and deserving of condemnation.

There is no independent reporting in the BBC "story". It's stenography that comes straight from SANO (Syrian Arab News Agency).

The parts of the BBC article that don't come from SANA or the Syrian government are:

That's why

enough to report in English-language media."

Unless, of course, the English language media is Reuters, AP, The Guardian, or the BBC.

and the rockets do not seem to have hurt anyone. Then the IDF launched multiple attacks on Syria in June, and have now invaded Syria, killing 13 people including women and children. Because we take their word for it that a couple of guys in the village launched the rockets back in June. Got it.

from Syria into Israel. You were "coming up blank". Reports in the Israeli press were provided to you.

Next, you claimed that because the attack wasn't covered in "English language media", it couldn't have been "that bad". "English language" reports from major press agencies were provided to you. Those reports include the name of the terrorist group that claimed responsibility.

Now the tact appears to be that, because the terrorist missile attack didn't kill anyone, there was no need to apprehend those suspected to be responsible. After all, the terrorist cell is only "a couple of guys in a village". And besides, why take "their" word for it when we already have the *reliable* Syrian state media version of the events source-washed through the prism of the BBC?

Sorry this didn't go quite as you had hoped. It has, however, been fun to watch the steady and predictable march of the goal posts all the way off the field and into the parking lot.

At first, no one came up with anything - they just gave the Israeli press stories on the killing of the 13 Syrians. You later found a June report of rockets aimed at the Golan Heights (at civilians? They don't seems to have injured anyone , so it's hard to know), which came right after Israel killed a civilian in Syria. Perhaps this is what the IDF is using as its excuse for shelling a Syrian village in November - there's no particular indication it is, but it was a rocket attack from Syria in this year.

But not, no goalposts have moved, since the OP asked for what the IDF was talking about, and you now seem confident you know what that was.

Your idea that the BBC quoting both Syrian and Israeli sources for an Israeli attack on Syria is "source-washing" is frankly bonkers.