A new Israeli raid on a Syrian army position in the Golan Heights killed at least five people on Friday, Syrian state television reported, describing the victims as unarmed civilians.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, said the strike killed two pro-regime militiamen travelling in a car.

It followed more than a dozen Israeli raids on Syrian army positions in the Golan Heights on Thursday, which killed at least one person, in response to cross-border rocket fire.