A Syrian surface-to-air missile exploded in an area of southern Israel today, the Israeli army said, triggering air defenses in the Negev area near the Israeli nuclear facility in Dimona, which is surrounded by top secrecy.
There have been no reports of injuries or damage in Israel so far.
The Israeli military says it has launched new airstrikes in Syria in retaliation for anti-aircraft missiles, including the one that fired the rocket that exploded in Israeli territory.
The Syrian state news agency SANA reported that The air defense stopped an Israeli raid targeting positions on the outskirts of Damascus.
According to the agency, “most of them” were shot down by rockets fired by Israeli fighter jets.
However, four soldiers were injured and there was material damage, according to SANA.
A Syrian army spokesman quoted by Reuters news agency as saying that Israeli airstrikes targeted positions near the town of Dumayr, 40 kilometers north of Damascus, where Iraqi-backed paramilitary groups are present.This is an area that has been repeatedly bombed by the Israeli Air Force.
According to an Israeli army spokesman, the rocket that exploded inside Israeli territory had been fired during a previous raid, but lost its target and reached the Dimona area.
According to the spokesman, this missile ewas launched by the SA-5 (NATO code for the Soviet S-200 anti-aircraft system). It exploded about 30 kilometers from the nuclear reactor, according to the same source.
A Reuters reporter about 90 miles (90 kilometers) north of Dimona heard the blast just minutes before the Israeli military announced on Twitter that air defenses had been sounded in the area.
Israeli media have been reporting for weeks that air defenses around the Dimona nuclear facility and the Red Sea port city of Eilat are being stepped up in anticipation of a possible long-range or UAV-backed attack by forces backed by Iran, possibly even from Yemen.
Tensions between Israel and Iran, sworn enemies, remain high, especially after a recent outbreak of sabotage operations for which one side blames the other.
However, in the case of the Syrian anti-aircraft missile, apparently “there was no intention to strike the nuclear reactor at Dimona,” said Hindai Zilberman, a spokesman for the Israeli army.
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