{"id":232553,"date":"2021-04-22T07:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T07:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=232553"},"modified":"2021-04-23T06:11:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T06:11:05","slug":"syrian-anti-aircraft-missile-strikes-near-israeli-nuclear-reactor-military-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=232553","title":{"rendered":"Syrian anti-aircraft missile strikes near Israeli nuclear reactor, military says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sky News \u2013 Apr 22, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_84530\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Israeli-nuclear-weapons-facility-at-Dimona.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"174\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli nuclear weapons facility at Dimona<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>A missile launched from Syria has struck Israel&#8217;s Negev desert region, setting off air raid sirens near the country&#8217;s nuclear reactor.<\/h4>\n<h4>In response, Israel said it had struck the missile launcher and other targets in Syria.<\/h4>\n<h4>The Israeli Defence Force said: &#8220;A short while ago, surface-to-air missile fire was identified from Syria, which landed in the Negev area.<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8220;In response, a few minutes ago, the IDF struck the battery from which the missile was launched and additional Syrian surface-to-air batteries in the area.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<h4>Israeli Army Radio said the Syrian missile had been fired at Israeli aircraft during an earlier strike and had overflown its target and reached the Dimona area, where a nuclear reactor is located.<\/h4>\n<h4>Syrian air defences said they intercepted an Israeli attack in the direction of the Golan Heights.<\/h4>\n<h4>Syria&#8217;s state news agency said that attack took place at around 1:38am local time and targeted areas in the Damascus suburbs.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/syrian-anti-aircraft-missile-strikes-near-israeli-nuclear-reactor-military-says-12283361\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_182493\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182493\" class=\"wp-image-182493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Syrian-air-defences-respond-to-Israeli-strikes-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Syrian-air-defences-respond-to-Israeli-strikes-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Syrian-air-defences-respond-to-Israeli-strikes-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Syrian-air-defences-respond-to-Israeli-strikes.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-182493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Syrian air defences respond to an earlier Israeli air strike. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Syrian air defence intercepts Israeli attack &#8211; Syrian state news agency<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reuters \u2013 Apr 22, 2021<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Syrian air defences intercepted an Israeli attack in the direction of the Golan heights, Syria&#8217;s state news agency reported on Thursday.<\/h4>\n<h4>The attack took place at around 01:38 local time and targeted areas in the Damascus suburbs, the agency said.<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8220;Air defenses intercepted the rockets and downed most of them,&#8221; it said.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/syrian-air-defence-intercepts-israeli-attack-syrian-state-news-agency-2021-04-22\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the IDF omits to say is that the Syrian missile was not aimed at the Dimona facility. The \u201canti-aircraft\u201d missile was fired fending-off an Israeli air raid on Damascus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,37,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232556,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232553\/revisions\/232556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}