Israeli missile shoots down ‘target’ over Golan: army

JERUSALEM: Israel shot down what it identified only as “a target” over the occupied Golan Heights on Thursday, hours after Syria accused it of hitting a military position near Damascus airport. “The Patriot Aerial Defence System intercepted a target above the Golan Heights,” the official Israeli army Twitter account said, without elaborating. A military spokeswoman refused to comment on Israeli media reports that the object was a drone. Syria’s state news agency SANA said earlier that several Israeli missiles hit near Damascus airport at dawn.