Israel fired on a commercial flight thinking that it was a Syrian plane | Chronic

The Israeli army mistakenly fired the Golan Heights against an Israeli plane conducting a commercial flight with civilians thinking that it was an infiltrated Syrian plane. However, despite the great mistake, there was no injury.

The pilot of the aircraft that they attacked said to be "one and a half meters from the disaster ", according to Ynet's local news page. The flight attendant thought that the first impact was on a bird until it noticed that they had lost fuel in the tank.

"It's a serious incident we're investigating", an army spokesman pointed at the DPA news agency. "They believed that the plane was a threat and fired until they realized that it was an Israeli plane."he says

During the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1967, the Golan Heights, which belonged to Syria, were occupied by Israel. The territory was annexed in 1981, although it was recognized internationally only by the United States.

Israel launched several airstrikes during the war in Syria against Iranian targets. Israel and Syria have never signed a peace agreement and Iran and Israel remain regional rivals.