U.S. Army, Permission Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army, “Spc. Daniel Nebrida, from Battery C, 1st Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division in Osan, South Korea, performs a maintenance check on a Patriot missile. This photo appeared on www.army.mil. Patriot PAC-3 Configuration 3 MSE missile launcher,” 4 October 2006, source: http://www4.army.mil/armyimages/armyimage.php?photo=11606, accessed July 13, 2018 via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maintenance_check_on_a_Patriot_missile.jpg, Wikimedia Commons.

On July 13, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) intercepted another Syrian UAV this week with an MIM-104 Patriot missile. The Times of Israel reported that the drone infringed on international law, since it “was flying inside the demilitarized zone between the two countries […], in what the army said was a violation of a 1974 ceasefire agreement.” This is the second time this week that Israel has targeted a Syrian drone with a Patriot missile, following the successful strike on July 11, and the third time in a month, after a previous firing on June 26.

Related Links:

Israel Launches Patriot Missile at Syrian Drone Flying over Demilitarized Zone, The Times of Israel
Israel Fires Patriot Missiles against Drone on Syrian Border, JPost