Jerusalem ( CNN ) At least two rockets fired from Syria landed in Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday afternoon , prompting Israel to respond with artillery fire , the Israeli military said . No injuries were immediately reported . After the rocket fire , officials evacuated Israeli-controlled areas around Mount Hermon , site of a ski resort , the military said . The Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah is suspected to have been involved in the rocket attack , which `` came from a Syrian air base in an area controlled by the Syrian army with a known Hezbollah presence , '' an Israeli military source said on condition of anonymity . Hezbollah supports the Syrian regime , which has been battling Sunni Islamist militants and other rebels in a civil war for more than three years . Weapons fire from Syria into Israeli-controlled Golan Heights -- both targeted and errant , the Israeli military contends -- has happened intermittently in the past year as the Syrian civil war raged . More than a week ago , Iranian semiofficial media reported that an Israeli airstrike killed six Hezbollah members and a senior Iranian commander in the Syrian controlled portion of Golan Heights around the Syrian town of Quneitra , the site of the only border crossing between Israel and Syria . Iran , like Hezbollah , supports the Syrian regime . The Israeli military refused to comment about the January 18 strike . Israel has occupied a portion of the territory since seizing it during its 1967 war with Egypt , Jordan and Syria . CNN 's Elise Labott reported from Jerusalem , and CNN 's Jason Hanna wrote in Atlanta . CNN 's Hamdi Alkhshali contributed to this report .
Hezbollah involvement suspected in the attack , Israeli military source said . No injuries immediately reported after rocket fire into Syrian - occupied Jerusalem Heights . Rocket fire from Syria into area has increased in past year with civil war raging .