According to a Western diplomat in Damascus, IAF planes which had allegedly infiltrated into Syrian airspace overnight Wednesday were most likely positioned in the area to take photographs, Israel Radio reported on Thursday night. After Syrian aerial defense systems identified the jets, the pilots were forced to throw bombs and fuel tanks out of the planes, said the official. The IDF spokesperson declined to comment, saying that the army does not respond "to such reports."
Residents of the Abyad area, the location in northern Syria where the IAF was reported to have flown over the previous night, claimed to have found several fuel tanks that the Israeli pilots had allegedly thrown out of their planes. |