Israel shot down what it identified only as “a target” over the occupied Golan Heights early yesterday, hours after Syria accused it of hitting a military position near Damascus airport.
“The Patriot Aerial Defence System intercepted a target above the Golan Heights,” the official Israeli army Twitter account said, without elaborating.
A military spokeswoman refused to comment on Israeli media reports that the object was a drone.
Syria’s state news agency SANA said earlier that several Israeli missiles hit near Damascus airport at dawn.
Hours before the blast, four Iranian cargo planes landed at the airport. At least one of them belonged to an airline that has been linked to Iran’s revolutionary guard.
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