New Delhi, Nov. 28 -- Damascus on Friday accused Israel of a 'criminal attack' after 13 people were killed in an Israeli raid in southern Syria.

Israel claimed that during an operation to detain suspects belonging to Jama'a Islamiya - a Lebanese Sunni Islamist, its troops came under fire in a village of Beit Jinn in which six soldiers were wounded and three of them were critically injured, reported Reuters.

The Israeli military further stated that the group had fired rockets at Israel from Lebanon during the Gaza war and accused them of involvement in 'terrorist plots'.

The Israeli military also accused them of planting improvised explosive devices and "planning future attacks on Israel including rocket fire".

It termed the raid as pa...