<p>Wary of attack by Iranian-backed groups in Lebanon or Syria after the US killed a top Iranian commander, the Israeli army Friday closed a ski resort in the annexed Golan Heights.</p>.<p>"Following a security assessment, it was decided to close Mount Hermon to visitors today," an army spokeswoman told AFP.</p>.<p>"There are no further instructions for civilians in the area."</p>.<p>The ski resort lies in the Israeli-occupied part of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed in a move still not recognised by most of the international community.</p>.<p>Across the armistice line sits Lebanon's Iran-backed Shiite militant group Hezbollah, Israel's bitter foe with which it fought in 2006.</p>.<p>There has so far been no official Israeli comment on the killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani in a US missile strike on Friday morning.</p>.<p>Israel is a close ally and warm supporter of the United States.</p>.<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on a visit to Greece and in his absence Defence Minister Naftali Bennett was to chair a meeting of the security cabinet Friday, Israeli media said.</p>.<p>The papers reported that Netanyahu had ordered ministers not to comment on the killing.</p>.<p>Yair Lapid, a senior member of the Blue and White alliance seeking to unseat Netanyahu, was however quick to congratulate President Donald Trump in a Facebook post.</p>.<p>"He who led murderous terrorist attacks from Damascus to Buenos Aires and was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents got the end he deserved.</p>.<p>"The Iranian regime is a terror regime and, against terror, determination and strength are required," Lapid wrote.</p>.<p>In the Gaza Strip, the Islamist Hamas movement which rules the territory condemned Soleimani's killing but did not make any overt threats.</p>.<p>"Hamas sends its condolences to the Iranian leadership and people," a statement said.</p>.<p>"Hamas condemns this American crime which raises tension in the region."</p>
<p>Wary of attack by Iranian-backed groups in Lebanon or Syria after the US killed a top Iranian commander, the Israeli army Friday closed a ski resort in the annexed Golan Heights.</p>.<p>"Following a security assessment, it was decided to close Mount Hermon to visitors today," an army spokeswoman told AFP.</p>.<p>"There are no further instructions for civilians in the area."</p>.<p>The ski resort lies in the Israeli-occupied part of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed in a move still not recognised by most of the international community.</p>.<p>Across the armistice line sits Lebanon's Iran-backed Shiite militant group Hezbollah, Israel's bitter foe with which it fought in 2006.</p>.<p>There has so far been no official Israeli comment on the killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani in a US missile strike on Friday morning.</p>.<p>Israel is a close ally and warm supporter of the United States.</p>.<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on a visit to Greece and in his absence Defence Minister Naftali Bennett was to chair a meeting of the security cabinet Friday, Israeli media said.</p>.<p>The papers reported that Netanyahu had ordered ministers not to comment on the killing.</p>.<p>Yair Lapid, a senior member of the Blue and White alliance seeking to unseat Netanyahu, was however quick to congratulate President Donald Trump in a Facebook post.</p>.<p>"He who led murderous terrorist attacks from Damascus to Buenos Aires and was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents got the end he deserved.</p>.<p>"The Iranian regime is a terror regime and, against terror, determination and strength are required," Lapid wrote.</p>.<p>In the Gaza Strip, the Islamist Hamas movement which rules the territory condemned Soleimani's killing but did not make any overt threats.</p>.<p>"Hamas sends its condolences to the Iranian leadership and people," a statement said.</p>.<p>"Hamas condemns this American crime which raises tension in the region."</p>