Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:29 UTC
Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center Sirens have pierced the air in Israel s southern Negev province near the secretive Dimona nuclear facility, with reports of multiple blasts heard far away from the site and anti-missile systems responding.
The sirens were heard in Abu Qrenat - a village some 13 miles (21km) northwest of The Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center in the Negev desert - following reports of explosions from the vicinity of the nuclear facility on Thursday morning, according to the
Jerusalem
Post. A military spokesperson said the incident resulted in no casualties.
Unconfirmed footage has circulated on social media, in which a siren can be heard blaring in the distance. The location the video was captured is unclear. Another clip purporting to show the moment a missile was intercepted by Israel s defense systems has also made the rounds.
Photo Credit: MEMRI / Al Arabiya, screen grab
Firas Tlass, son of former Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass, interviewed on the Saudi Arabian Al Arabiya news network in an interview that aired on March 24 and March 25, 2021.
A Syrian businessman says that certain areas in Syria are completely under the control of Iran or Hezbollah, and that President Bashar Al-Assad does not know what is happening there.
Firas Tlass, son of former Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass, made the remarks on the Saudi Arabian Al Arabiya news network in an interview that aired on March 24 and March 25, 2021. The interview was translated and a clip uploaded to the internet by
Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel s military correspondent.
Illustrative: An explosion caused by Iron Dome air defense system missiles intercepting rockets fired from Gaza, February 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra/ File)
Incoming rocket sirens were triggered in the northern Negev in the area near Israel’s nuclear reactor in the predawn hours of Thursday morning, followed by massive explosions that could be heard throughout much of the country.
The Israel Defense Forces said the sirens in the northern Negev, not far from the country’s nuclear reactor, were set off not by a directed attack on a target within Israel but by an errant Syrian anti-aircraft missile that had been fired at an Israeli jet during an airstrike on targets in the Syrian Golan Heights.