The Israeli army holds the Syrian government accountable for any fire from its territory, regardless of its source.
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Just minutes after the Syrian claim on Tuesday, Israel denied it had lost any aircraft.
This is a developing news story and it will be updated accordingly.
An Israeli military spokesperson said in a statement sent to Xinhua that the incident occurred overnight after Israeli jets struck artillery posts in Syria.
The statement said that Syrian air defense shot down a warplane southwest of al-Quneitra, and a drone west of the town of SaaSaa.
Assad is saying to the Israelis: “take into consideration that in the next time when you decide to respond to shells from Golan, I won’t stand on my hands”, the newspaper said further.
Yet Lerner claims that, during this raid, “at no point was the safety of IDF aircraft compromised”, and that the SAF’s claims are “completely false”.
Israel occupied the Golan Heights during the 1967 Middle East war and formally annexed it in 1981, a move that was never recognised internationally.
Both agreed that Israel attacked a Syrian military position around 1 a.m.
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“Overnight two surface-to-air missiles were launched from Syria after the [Israeli] mission overnight to target Syrian artillery positions”, military spokesman Arye Shalicar said. In recent years Israeli jets have also carried out numerous strikes against weapons convoys heading to Lebanon’s Hezbollah Shia militias who are fighting in Syria alongside government forces.
