Negev, Israel
The Israeli army announced on Thursday that it had carried out bombings against Syria following the launch of a rocket from that country, which landed in the Negev desert (south), near a secret Israeli nuclear installation.
“A ground – to – air missile identified as originating in Syria fell into the Negev. In retaliation … the Israeli army bombed the battery from which the rocket was fired and other Syrian ground-to-air missile batteries, “the Israeli army said in a short message.
According to the official Syrian news agency Sana, the Israeli army launched missiles from the Golan Heights “in positions in the vicinity of Damascus.”
“Our air defense battery intercepted missiles and threw most of them in this aggression that injured four soldiers and some property damage,” the Syrian news agency added, citing a local military source.
Earlier, the Israeli army indicated that sirens warning of potential attacks were activated near the Bedouin city of Abu Qrenat, located a few kilometers from the Dimona plant.
Israel has never acknowledged that it has a nuclear arsenal, but foreign experts, relying mainly on the testimony of Mordejai Vanunu, a former Israeli nuclear technician, claim that the Jewish state has between 100 and 300 nuclear warheads.
Since the start of the war in Syria in 2011, the Jewish state has carried out hundreds of bombings against the positions of the Syrian power and its allies, Iranian troops and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters.
Israel says it is trying to prevent its main enemy, Iran, from settling in Syria, a country bordering the Jewish state. Despite the fact that the Israeli army carried out hundreds of bombings in Syria, it has rarely publicly acknowledged them.
Most of the shots in Syria were intercepted by the Israeli anti-missile shield “Israeli Dome”.