An Israeli civilian aircraft flew without authorization on Saturday afternoon and was mistakenly identified by the IDF as a hostile aircraft. The IAF had already made plans to intercept the aircraft and attempted to contact it without success.
As a result of the identification, sirens were sounded in several locations in central Israel.
According to a report by I24 News, the pilot was saved from being shot down only once the interceptors' cameras identified the aircraft and understood it was Israeli.
Following the deadly UAV strike on the Golani Training Base last month, the IDF decided to up the sensitivity and caution regarding reports of aerial infiltrations into Israeli airspace.
As a result of the strike on the training base, four soldiers were killed and 61 were injured.
The UAV hit the base without setting off an alarm after the IDF assumed the drone crashed because it disappeared from the radars.