Khaleej Times, a news website based in Dubai reported Thursday, that Israel sent agents to retrieve parts of the SAM 5 missile that downed an Israeli aircraft upon its return from a run in Syria on Saturday.

The report quoted Syrian sources claiming the parts were retrieved by Israel in order to conduct testing.

On Saturday morning, an Iranian UAV was spotted on its way into Israeli airspace and was shot down by an Apache attack helicopter once it traversed over Israeli territory. In response to the Iranian violation of Israeli sovereignty, Israeli Air Force jets flew deep into Syria to hit the drone’s launch and control center near Palmyra some 160 kilometers north of Damascus.

As the jets flew home a barrage of Syrian anti-aircraft missiles was fired at the planes as they were over Israeli territory. The pilot of one of the planes decided to eject. It is unclear whether as a result of Syrian missiles locking on the plane or of direct damage. The two pilots parachuted to safety landing near Kibbutz Harduf in the Lower Galilee. One of the pilots suffered severe injuries as the result of what doctors described as penetration wounds, suggesting that he may have been hit by shrapnel from an anti-aircraft missile.

In response to the launch of a barrage of anti-aircraft missiles over Israeli territory, the IAF launched a second wave of strikes hitting Syrian anti-aircraft batteries, President Bashar Assad’s personal guard and Iranian targets.