Israeli warplanes have once again targeted Syrian government artillery positions in Syria’s Golan Heights.
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Israel has denied claims by the Syrian military that one of its war planes and a drone was shot down following an air strike.
Meanwhile, Israel’s military on Tuesday denied a Syrian claim that it had shot down two Israeli military aircraft.
The statement said that Syrian air defense shot down a warplane southwest of al-Quneitra, and a drone west of the town of SaaSaa.
An Israeli military spokeswoman told AFP Monday’s projectile was most likely not intentional, rather spillover from “internal fighting in Syria”.
This incident was not the first time the Syrian army tried to down Israeli aircraft in recent years.
Earlier today, three rockets landed in the Northern Golan Heights from Syria.
A picture taken from the Golan Heights on September 10, 2016, shows smoke rising from the Syrian village of Jubata al-Khashab.
Quneitra was seized by rebels in 2014 after battles with the Syrian Arab Army and remains under de-facto opposition control, sitting inside a United Nations “disengagement observer force zone”. No injuries or damage has been reported, according to Israel Hayom.
The seven-day truce in Syria, brokered by Russian Federation and the United States, is their second attempt this year by to halt the bloodshed.
Israel is also believed to be behind airstrikes in Syria against arms shipments destined for Hezbollah.
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Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and the two countries have been at a state of war for decades.
