Israel’s military denied the Syrian regime’s claim that two Israeli military aircraft were shot down.
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The Israeli strike targeted “artillery positions of Syrian Regime in the central Syrian Golan Heights” in response to “a projectile” which on Monday had hit the northern Golan causing no injuries, an army statement said.
A picture taken from the Golan Heights on September 10, 2016, shows smoke rising from the Syrian village of Jubata al-Khashab. Syrian President Bashar Assad says his government is determined to “reclaim every area from the terrorists, and to rebuild” the country.
The incident was the fifth case since last week in which fighting in Syria has spilled over into Israel, and the first since a U.S.
The Syrian army said on Tuesday it had shot down an Israeli warplane and a drone in Syria after an Israeli attack on a Syrian army position in southern Syria, state media reported.
Shortly after the air raid, Syria’s armed forces claimed to have shot down an Israeli warplane and an unmanned drone along the frontier.
The Israeli military quickly denied the report, saying that a pair of surface-to-air missiles were fired at its aircraft but missed.
Eli Malka, who serves as the head of the Golan Regional Council, said that though the artillery fire from Syria into Golan Heights is not believed to have been intentional, he said “there is no difference between spillover fire and intentional fire – a bomb is a bomb and poses a risk to human life”.
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Israel captured the Golan, a strategic plateau, from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981 in a move that has not won global recognition.
