(MENAFN) After the Israeli occupation military censors lifted an order banning officials from discussing the operation, it has formally been announced that the army destroyed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, the BBC reported.
The military said that the air raid in the eastern Deir-al-Zour region had removed "an emerging 'existential' threat to Israel and the entire region".
It said the reactor was close to being finished. However, Syria has repeatedly denied that the bombed site was a nuclear reactor
Although it has long been thought Israel was in charge of the offensive, it never acknowledged this until now.
"On the night between 5-6 September 2007, Israeli Air Force fighter jets successfully struck and destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor in development," the Israeli army said in a statement.
Confirming the threat that a nuclear reactor might have, especially in the hands of its arch-foe, Iran, Intelligence Minister Israel Katz said on Twitter on Wednesday that "the operation and its success made clear that Israel will never allow nuclear weaponry to be in the hands of those who threaten its existence - Syria then, and Iran today."
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