by debkaFile
--------
An Israeli air force Patriot missile Tuesday shot
down an Iran-made Hizballah drone over the Syrian border town of
Quneitra in the demilitarized zone. The UAV took off from Damascus air
port. The IAF first scrambled fighter jets, before launching the missile
from a site near the Galilee town of Safed.
“Israel will not allow Iran, Hizballah or other forces to infiltrate or approach its territory in the Golan Heights,” the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report: This was the
first time an IDF missile had intercepted a Hizballah drone in Syrian
air space. In the past, fighter jets found it hard to down drones
entering Golan air space and ended up shooting a Patriot missile.
Hizballah’s purpose in sending the drone was apparently to test the
state of readiness of IDF air defenses in northern Israel – but no less
to see how the Russians would react when an Israeli UAV flew over a
Russian-US de-escalation zone in southern Syria, that is under Russian
surveillance.
Source: https://www.debka.com/israeli-patriot-missile-downs-hizballah-drone-quneitra/
Follow Middle East and Terrorism on Twitter
Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.
No comments:
Post a Comment