Israeli officials have blamed Russian military in Syria for disrupted GPS at the state's biggest airport.

A number of pilots are said to have lost satellite signals from the Global Positioning System around Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport over the last few weeks.

The government said yesterday that measures were in place to allow safe landings and takeoffs at the terminal as a probe got underway into the disruptions.

This morning, Israeli officials blamed Russia - only for Moscow's embassy in Israel to dismiss the 'fake' clams that they 'couldn’t respond to seriously.'

Israeli officials have blamed Russian military in Syria for disrupted GPS at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport (pictured)

According to the Times of Israel, unnamed officials say interference with the planes' GPS reception looked to have originated in Syria where Russian military is backing dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Source told the website it may have stemmed from a form of electronic warfare known as 'spoofing'.

The Israeli Airline Pilots Association said this was an advanced means of feeding GPS receivers with incorrect location data by a transmitter, potentially making it seem to the pilot like the aircraft is in a different location, the Times of Israel reported.

However, the Israel Defense Forces have not commented on the origins of the interference.

Israel Airports Authority announced yesterday that Israel was experiencing unexplained GPS disruptions in its airspace but that measures are in place to allow safe landings and takeoffs.

The announcement by the Israel Airports Authority (IAA) followed a report on Tuesday by the International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations (IFALPA) that 'many' pilots had lost satellite signals from the Global Positioning System around Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport.

According to the Times of Israel , unnamed officials say interference with the planes' GPS reception looked to have originated in Syria where Russian military is backing dictator Bashar al-Assad (file picture)

Confirming there had been GPS disruptions for approximately the past three weeks, an IAA statement said these affected only airborne crews and not terrestrial navigation systems.

Israeli authorities had worked from the outset to locate the source of the problem and fix it, it added.

Asked if an explanation for the disruption had been found, an IAA spokesman said: 'No. I don't know.'

Asked for comment, a spokeswoman for Israel's Defence Ministry said only that the disruption was an IAA matter.

'At no stage has there been a safety incident stemming from the GPS disruption in the context of the precision of navigation and flight corridors,' the IAA said.

In its post on Tuesday, the IFALPA said the loss of the GPS signal may create numerous alerts for systems.