GAZA (Dispatches) – The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says it has fired a number of surface-to-air missiles towards Zionist fighter jets flying over the Gaza Strip after an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the group was shot down.
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced in a Monday statement that one of its Shehab (Meteor) drones, while on a training flight, was shot down by the occupying regime’s air force earlier the same day.
It noted that the incident occurred as members of the al-Qassam Brigades were conducting training in the southern Gaza Strip.
After Zionist fighter jets targeted the drone, the Brigades responded by firing anti-aircraft missiles towards the planes.
No Israeli aircraft were apparently damaged in the incident.
The Israeli military said the Hamas drone was spotted in the airspace over the besieged coastal enclave, and was monitored up until the moment it was shot down.
This came a day after Zionist combat helicopters and planes downed an unidentified aircraft that appeared to have crossed into the occupying regime’s “airspace” from Syria’s Golan.
The unidentified aircraft was tracked by the Israeli military and “taken down over an open area,” without posing a threat to residents of the area, the regime’s army said in a statement on Sunday.
The remnants of that drone were collected by the army on Monday morning and transferred for additional checks.