JERUSALEM -- Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon denied Tuesday that Israel attacked last week an arms depot in Latakia, Syria, Israel Radio reported.
"We're used to ultimately being accused of different things that are happening there," Ya'alon said, referring to reports that Israel attacked and destroyed the arms depot in the northern Syrian port city of Latakia on July 5.
Speaking at a tour of an arms factory in northern Israel on Tuesday, Ya'alon said Israel was upholding its policy of engaging targets inside Syria only when gunfire spills over the border and violates Israel's sovereignty or endangers its military forces in the area.
"We do not interfere in Syria's civil war. We have established red lines regarding our interests and we are sticking to them," he said.
