Israel says targeted drone in Golan Heights
Israeli military has claimed to have targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying over the occupied Golan Heights near the Syrian border.
"Moments ago two Patriot air defense missiles were fired towards a drone which infiltrated ... from Syria," the Israeli military said in a statement.
The Israeli media said Sunday that the regime forces fired two Patriot missiles at the drone, which they said entered the Golan airspace around noon local time.
There was no confirmation on whether the drone was successfully shot down, neither was there any report about projectiles landing in the occupied territories.
Some reports said multiple explosions were heard in the area although they added that the noise could only come from the firing of Israeli missiles.
The military confirmed in a statement that it had fired the two missiles and said fighter jets were scrambled above Golan following the launch.
The incident comes amid a heavy military drill by Israeli forces in the occupied Golan. The drill began late Saturday and will end on Tuesday, local sources said.
Two Israeli soldiers were reportedly killed earlier on Sunday with military officials claiming that they had died due to an accident. There was no report of any rocket fired from the Syrian-controlled territories into the Israeli-occupied Golan. An earlier report on Israeli TV had said the missiles fired by Israel targeted a rocket.
Israel has a record of using the Patriot system to target UAVs and rockets that it claims come from Syria.
Syria’s Golan, a territory full of natural resources, was occupied in the 1967 war by Israel. The regime later annexed the area heedless of international condemnations. The United Nations Security Council Resolution 497, which was adopted unanimously on December 17, 1981, has declared Tel Aviv’s annexation of Golan as “null and void and without international legal effect.”
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