'We shot it down': Benjamin Netanyahu stands by downing of Syrian fighter jet

Watch Evan Solomon's full exclusive interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 5 p.m. ET on CBC News Network's Power & Politics.

Shooting down a Syrian fighter jet doesn't mean the war in Syria has widened to include Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CBC News today in an exclusive interview.

The Israeli military shot down a Syrian jet over the Golan Heights early Tuesday, marking the first time in decades that Israel had downed a piloted Syrian plane.

"Our air defences are designed to intercept any intrusion of our airspace by enemy fighter aircraft, and we had such a penetration. It may have been accidental. We shot it down‎," Netanyahu told ​Evan Solomon, host of CBC News Network's Power & Politics. 

The Israeli military said a "Syrian aircraft infiltrated into Israeli air space" in the morning hours and that the military "intercepted the aircraft in mid-flight, using the Patriot air defence system."

The military would not say what type of aircraft was downed and said the circumstances of the incident were "unclear."

Also Tuesday in Israel, Israeli special forces stormed a West Bank hideout and killed two Palestinians suspected in the June abduction and slaying of three Israeli teenagers, a gruesome attack that had triggered a chain of events that led to the war in Gaza this summer.

The deaths of the two suspects, identified by the Israeli military as well-known Hamas militants, ended one of the largest manhunts conducted by the Israeli security forces.

Reuters reported the Palestinian delegation to Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo decided to continue the negotiations despite the killing.

The interview with Netanyahu will air on CBC News Network's Power & Politics at 5 p.m. ET Tuesday.

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