But Israeli military officials said all aircraft returned safely to base following the operation, despite having been fired at by Syrian forces.
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The IDF, meanwhile, say they took out Syrian military targets after artillery fire from their northern border, but that all their aircraft returned safely.
It said the Israeli attack comes in the framework of the Israeli support to the terrorist groups in Qunaitera.
IDF planes striking Syrian army positions Tuesday, after a Syrian shell strayed across the Golan border, were attacked by two Syrian S-200 missiles.
According to a military spokeswoman, the projectile was most likely not intentional, rather spillover from “internal fighting in Syria”, AFP reported.
On Monday evening, Syrian fire crossed into the northern Golan Heights as a nationwide ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russian Federation came into effect in the embattled country. Israel also regarded Syria as an enemy state and generally prohibits its citizens from going there.
Israel captured the roughly 500-square mile Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
“We will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israel’s sovereignty or the security of its citizens”, the statement read. Moreover, the Syrian army has repeatedly seized huge quantities of Israeli-made weapons and advanced military equipment from the foreign-backed militants inside Syria.
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“Israel attacked an artillery post in Ein al-Burj near the eastern foothills of the Syrian Mount Hermon”, explained the source to the Syrian Arab News Agency.
