DID ISRAEL INVADE SYRIAN AIRSPACE? Syria seems to think so:

"Israel in fact does not want peace. It cannot survive without aggression, treachery and military messages," Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said Thursday, a day after IAF aircraft allegedly violated Syrian airspace in an overnight operation.

...Air defense units confronted them and forced them to leave," he added. "We warn the Israeli enemy government against this flagrant aggressive act, and retain the right to respond in an appropriate way."

The flagrantly aggressive, treacherous act that the Syrians are complaining about appears to be that 4 or 5 IAF aircraft broke the sound barrier and then dropped their fuel tanks in northern Syria near the Turkish border.

The IDF is not responding publicly whether the Syrian story is true or not.

Noah Pollak writes that contacts he has in the IDF do not know anything about the incident. He notes:

If memory serves, the last time Israel struck inside Syria was in 2003, when the IAF bombed an Islamic Jihad camp near Damascus the day after an IJ suicide bombing killed 19 Israelis in Haifa.

Considering the tension that already exists, it is difficult to believe that Israel would randomly do something like this.

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