Syria not only denied the fake report of the Sunday Times only, but gave more details about the Israeli airplanes and saying the Israeli airplanes were targeting Iran.
According Syrian sources and Israeli warplanes were targeting Iran must pass through either Turkey, Jordan-Saudi Arabia or Syria, of course the choice was Syria to spare other neighboring States the Iranian retaliation.
8 Israeli warplanes F-15 and F-16 equipped with AGM-65 Maverick and is the march of air-to-surface missiles and equipped with laser cameras to identify targets and to strik strategic objectives complex and each aircraft loaded with bombs weights 225 kilograms and equipped with reserve fuel tanks for long-range flights with very low altitude towards Iran, but the Syria radar revealed the operation.
Syria anti-aircrafts batteries delayed to respond, they wanted to be certain that these airplanes are not Turkish military, then an immediate order was given to create an anti-aircraft wall forced the Israeli pilots to return and during the escape some of those planes dropped cargo to speed up the escape.
Because of the failure of the operation the Israeli government kept silent and secret from the press, so not to become a new scandal after the defeat of Israel in the last July war.