The Israeli military have rejected Syrian claims as “completely false” but said Syrian forces had fired two surface-to-air missiles after an Israeli strike on a Syrian position.
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The Israeli air force responded by conducting missions overnight to target Syrian regime artillery positions. “At no point was the safety of IDF aircraft compromised”, the Israeli military said.
Israel is denying Syrian government claims that its forces shot down a warplane and a drone near the Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights.
But it has repeatedly said it would hold the government in Damascus responsible for any fire on the Golan Heights or Israeli territory that originates on Syrian soil.
Both agreed that Israel attacked a Syrian military position around 1 a.m.
Syria has shotoff a letter to the UN Secretary General and the Security Council’s Head stating that attacks prove that Israel has a strategic alliance with the armed terrorist groups, particularly Jabhat al-Nusra.
The Syrian regime claimed it downed one Israeli plane.
A military spokeswoman told AFP Monday’s projectile was most likely not intentional, rather spillover from “internal fighting in Syria”.
It is the first such incident since a nationwide cease-fire in Syria brokered by the United States and Russian Federation went into effect on Monday evening, the second attempt this year by Washington and Moscow to halt the five-year-old civil war.
Israel captured the plateau from Syria in a 1967 war.
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The U.S. Embassy in Israel has issued a travel advisory for the Golan Heights after several mortar rounds fired from Syria landed in the northern Golan Heights in recent days.
