JERUSALEM, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli military said on Sunday it had carried out a drone strike in southern Syria, targeting a member of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

The strike took place near Mazraat Beit Jin, close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the military said in a statement. It did not identify the individual targeted.

Hamas did not immediately respond to the issue.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said an Israeli drone struck a car near a farm in the Mazraat Beit Jin. One man was injured and taken to the hospital, the monitor said.

The strike followed an earlier Israeli air operation last Tuesday, its first in Syria in nearly a month. At the time, the Israeli military said it targeted Syrian government weapons facilities in retaliation for two projectiles launched toward Israel from Syrian territory.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz reiterated that Israel holds Syria's interim leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, responsible for any attacks originating from within Syria's borders.

In response to last week's airstrikes, Syria's interim foreign affairs authorities issued a statement condemning Israeli artillery fire on southern Daraa province, calling it a "blatant violation of Syrian sovereignty." The statement urged international intervention to stop what it described as "escalating aggression" by Israel.

"Numerous actors may seek to destabilize the region to serve their own interests," the statement said, adding that the government's priority in southern Syria remained "extending state authority and eliminating weapons outside official institutions." ■