Syria misses Israeli surveillance aircraft

DEBKAfile - Syria accuses Israel of bombing unspecified targets. Israeli military spokesman: We are checking report: "The Syrian News Agency SANA says Syrian air defenses went into action when Israeli warplanes entered its air space from the Mediterranean Sea at dawn Thursday - heading northeast and breaking the sound barrier. Syria fire forced them to leave without causing casualties, says the report. Arab and European stations quote Syrian sources as accusing the Israeli air force of bombing empty areas. DEBKAfile: The Kamishli area mentioned in the report is where the Syrian, Turkish and Iraqi borders meet. The IDF spokesman say the incident is under investigation. A Syrian spokesman warned “the Zionist enemy against repeating aggressive action” and said his government reserved the right to respond.
DEBKAfile military sources speculate the Syrians may have referred to a possible Israeli surveillance flight which finding itself under fire may have dumped a fuel tank to gain speed; Damascus may be seeking to raise the military temperatures between the two countries for its own purposes, or fabricating a pretext to go on the offensive against Israeli targets on the Golan."