Syria claims shooting down Israeli jet

damascus - Syria said Friday to have shot down an Israeli fighter plane near the city of Palmyra. According to the commander of the Syrian army had the Israeli army warplanes violated its airspace.

The fighter planes would have attacked a military target at Palmyra. Syria calls it an act of aggression that Islamic State benefits. Syria also would have damaged another extension.

Israel denies that a device has been shot. According to the army all aircraft returned safely.

The Israeli air force bombarded in their own words multiple targets in Syria. The Syrian government army would in a reaction rockets fired on Israeli fighter planes, the newspaper Haaretz reported earlier Friday.

The Syrian missiles had the newspaper missed their target. No casualties would have fallen on the Israeli side. One of the Syrian missiles would be downed by an air defense system north of Jerusalem.

Haaretz talks about the most serious incident between the countries since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. A spokesman confirmed the Israeli armed forces have bombarded targets in the neighboring country, but it is still unclear what the targets were.

Journalists, according to the newspaper The Jerusalem Post shared images of the downed air defense missile of the Syrian regime. The missile seems right to have amounted to a building.

In recent years did several times stories that Israel has attacked convoys in Syria with weapons to Hezbollah. However, these have never been officially confirmed by the Israeli forces.