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Israel Acknowledges Having Bombed A Suspected Syrian Nuclear Reactor In 2007

The revelation confirms long-held suspicions that the raid destroyed what Israel believed to be a nuclear reactor. Israeli officials made clear they intend this announcement to send a message to Iran.
This image, which is excerpted from a video released Wednesday, shows what the Israeli military says was a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor site near Deir al-Zor, photographed before and after an Israeli airstrike in September 2007.

After more than a decade of silence, the Israeli Defense Forces confirmed Wednesday that an Israeli airstrike destroyed a suspected nuclear reactor under construction in Syria in 2007.

It was in the dark, early hours of Sept. 6, near Deir ez-Zor, that "four F-16 jets eliminated a nuclear threat not only to Israel, but.

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