Israel:Israel has admitted it was behind an airstrike that destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor, ending a decade of silence over the attack in September 2007.
Military censors lifted a 10-year order of secrecy on the mission, Reutersreported, revealing that Israeli F-15 and F-16 warplanes targeted the Al-Kubar facility near the city of Deir Ezzor, in eastern Syria.
It said the reactor was “an emerging existential threat to Israel and the entire region.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also released newly declassified video footage of the attack—known as Operation Orchard—as well as photographs and intelligence documents detailing the bombing and the planning of the mission, which used almost 20 tons of munitions.
