Syria Fires on Israeli War Planes
September 6th, 2007Via: AFP:
Syria said its air defences opened fire on Israeli warplanes which had violated Syrian airspace at dawn on Thursday, ratcheting up the tensions between the neighbouring foes.
A Syrian cabinet minister warned that the nation’s leadership was considering its response to the Israeli “aggression” while in Jerusalem the military declined any comment.
“Enemy Israeli planes penetrated Syrian airspace from the Mediterranean Sea heading towards the northeast, breaking the sound barrier,” a Syrian army spokesman told the official SANA news agency.
“Our air defences repulsed them and forced them to leave…after the Israeli planes dropped munitions, without causing human or material loss,” he said, without giving further information on what exactly was dropped.
Syria’s allegations came amid a war of words with Israel, with each blaming the other for stoking regional tensions and for the failure to revive peace talks that have been stalled for seven years.
Information Minister Mohsen Bilal told pan-Arab satellite television Al-Jazeera that Syria’s leadership was “giving serious consideration to its response… to this aggression.”
In Jerusalem, the Israeli military refused to comment on Syria’s claims, saying: “We do not comment on such reports.”
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