[Ynet] For the second time this week, IDF fires Patriot missile to intercept UAV approaching Israeli border from Syria; witness on Syrian side of border says drone crashed.Israel fired a Patriot missile on Friday afternoon at a UAV approaching its border from Syria, the second such an incident this week.
The Patriot was launched from Safed at around 3pm, according to residents, and a witness on the Syrian side of the frontier said the drone had been brought down.
"A Patriot missile of the IDF's (Israel Defense Forces) aerial defense system was launched towards a Syrian UAV flying over the demilitarized zone. The UAV was most likely intercepted," the military said in a statement.
The army said the drone was intercepted over the buffer zone between the two countries.
The IDF said it will "operate against attempts to violate the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement, threats to Israeli illusory sovereignty and any attempt to harm Israeli civilians."
On Wednesday, a Patriot missile was fired at a Syrian drone that infiltrated 10 kilometers into Israel, prompting a rocket-alert siren to go off in several communities in the Golan Heights. The IDF intercepted the drone over the Kinneret.