A preliminary military investigation announced last night that the Syrian rockets fired towards Israeli airplanes on Friday morning, after they conducted sorties in Israel’s northern neighbor, were ballistic SA-5 missiles that posed imminent danger to residential areas in the Jewish state. The IDF contends that the decision to intercept the Syrian missile that entered Israel’s airspace with the Arrow missile system was correct and that if it had not been intercepted, the Syrian SA-5 missile, bearing a 200-kilogram warhead, would have landed in the populated Jordan Valley region. IDF Brigadier General Zvika Haimovich, who commands the Israel Air Force’s aerial defense array, stressed that there had been no dilemma about using the Arrow missile system, as the Syrian missile fired posed a threat to Israeli citizens.
