The Israeli military denied that any of its military planes were shot down by Syria.
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Rejecting the Syrian claim, the Israeli military said two missiles were fired in the direction of its aircraft but both missed their targets.
A man sits on an old tank as he watches fighting taking place in Syria as seen from the Israeli side of the border fence between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights September 11, 2016.
Shortly after the air raid, Syria’s armed forces claimed to have shot down an Israeli warplane and an unmanned drone along the frontier.
An errant mortar shell fired from Syria struck the northern Golan Heights Wednesday evening, the army said.
Fighting between government forces and rebel groups continued in Quneitra after the cease-fire started Monday at sundown but calmed by Tuesday morning, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a United Kingdom -based opposition monitoring group. “We will not tolerate any attempt to undermine Israeli sovereignty or compromise the Israeli public’s safety”, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement.
The IDF frequently retaliates against stray missile strikes inside Israeli territory.
The report came as a U.S. -Russia-brokered truce appeared to be holding in Syria on Tuesday, after coming into effect the night before.
Quneitra borders Israel, Jordan and Lebanon and includes the disputed Golan Heights, which have exchanged hands between Syria and Israel in a succession of wars.
The IDF is also widely believed to have carried out airstrikes on arms shipments destined for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, a close ally of Assad.
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The global community considers the Golan Heights to be occupied territory and Israeli settlement-building there to be illegal.
