Zionists in Shock After Blast Near Dimona
LONDON (Dispatches) – There is confusion and shock among the occupying regime of Israel after its air defenses failed to intercept a missile fired from Syria overnight Thursday that traversed 125 miles of its highly protected airspace and landed near its secretive Dimona nuclear reactor.
The surface-to-air missile was believed to have been fired by Syrian air defenses against Zionist jets that were bombing a site near Damascus, but the path it flew led to speculation that the occupying regime’s most sensitive site may have instead been a target.
War minister Benny Gantz claimed the missile had landed in Occupied Palestine as a result of errant Syrian anti-aircraft fire. In doing so he raised concerns about the effectiveness of the regime’s vaunted air defense capabilities.
Gantz said the occupying regime’s anti-missile systems had attempted to intercept the SA-5 but were unsuccessful. "In most cases we achieve other results. This is a slightly more complex case. We will investigate it and move on,” he said, trying to gloss over the failure.
The incident follows the publication of an analysis in an Iranian newspaper at the weekend that called for the Dimona reactor to be targeted to avenge an apparent Zionist sabotage operation at the Natanz nuclear site in Iran a fortnight ago, British daily the Guardian reported.
The missile landed around 20 miles short of the Dimona site, in Negev desert.
The occupying regime of Israel has some of the most tightly protected airspace in the world.
Air raid sirens sounded at about 1.30 am in Abu Krinat, a village in the desert. Security sources said the projectile exploded in mid-air and that fragments landed on the ground.
The Zionist military said its forces responded to the missile by bombing the "battery from which the missile was launched and additional Syrian surface-to-air batteries in the area”.
With tensions already high with Iran, the occupying regime of Israel may be seen as wanting to play down any attempted attack or risk a confrontation, the Guardian said.
The paper noted that the Zionist regime has in the past been quick to blame Syria or Iran for other alleged strikes, including when it accused Iranian forces of firing rockets at its troops in 2018.
A prominent political commentator said the missile that hit near Dimona nuclear facility laid bare the inefficiency of the regime’s much-publicized "Iron Dome” missile shield, predicting that the strike will change all the "old equations” and rules of engagement in the region.
Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor of the online Rai al-Youm daily, posted a video of himself on Twitter, in which he cast doubt on Tel Aviv’s account of the incident, suggesting that the anti-Israel resistance movement in the region — which includes Iran and Syria besides resistance groups in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq — have been behind the missile fire.
"The missile fire against Dimona heralds the start of a change in the rules of the conflict. This attempt heralds the collapse of all old equations,” he wrote in a tweet.
I”t seems that the resistance’s
strategic patience is over,” Atwan wrote in the tweet along the video. "Iron Dome proved ineffective. Those who have seen the frightened settlers flee to the shelters understand what we are saying.”
Atwan said that the missile fire "sends a clear message to the U.S. and Israel, stressing that "the resistance responds and the time to restore our dignity has arrived.”
The analyst said the reality is that the missile fire flustered the Israeli military, which later admitted that its missile systems failed to detect what he described as a "ballistic missile.”
Regarding the performance of Iron Dome, the Lebanon-based Al-Akhbar daily also published an analysis of the missile fire, which it described as "the first of its kind.”
The missile fire, it added, blew the lid off the Achilles’ heel of the Israeli missile interception system.
The daily also expressed doubts about the Zionist regime’s official account of what happened near Dimona and said Tel Aviv’s "erroneous” story raises many questions about the type of the missile, the party that has actually fired it and the reasons why Iron Dome has failed to respond.
The incident happened only weeks after Israel said it had upgraded Iron Dome, amid fears in the regime over the increasing military prowess of anti-Israel resistance groups in Lebanon and the blockaded Gaza Strip.
The incident came after a large explosion occurred at a rocket factory owned by the occupying regime of Israel in central Occupied Palestine on Tuesday morning.
The blast sent up a massive plume of fire and smoke outside the central town of Ramle, which could be seen from miles away.
The explosion took place at the Tomer military firm, which manufactures propulsion systems for a variety of rockets and missiles.
Videos of the blast were widely shared on social media, prompting speculation that that it was the result of a malfunction or sabotage, especially in light of ongoing tensions between the Zionist regime and Iran.
The Zionist military contractor claimed that the images were misleading and that it was a deliberate explosion as part of a trial, prompting ridicule among many observers.
The surface-to-air missile was believed to have been fired by Syrian air defenses against Zionist jets that were bombing a site near Damascus, but the path it flew led to speculation that the occupying regime’s most sensitive site may have instead been a target.
War minister Benny Gantz claimed the missile had landed in Occupied Palestine as a result of errant Syrian anti-aircraft fire. In doing so he raised concerns about the effectiveness of the regime’s vaunted air defense capabilities.
Gantz said the occupying regime’s anti-missile systems had attempted to intercept the SA-5 but were unsuccessful. "In most cases we achieve other results. This is a slightly more complex case. We will investigate it and move on,” he said, trying to gloss over the failure.
The incident follows the publication of an analysis in an Iranian newspaper at the weekend that called for the Dimona reactor to be targeted to avenge an apparent Zionist sabotage operation at the Natanz nuclear site in Iran a fortnight ago, British daily the Guardian reported.
The missile landed around 20 miles short of the Dimona site, in Negev desert.
The occupying regime of Israel has some of the most tightly protected airspace in the world.
Air raid sirens sounded at about 1.30 am in Abu Krinat, a village in the desert. Security sources said the projectile exploded in mid-air and that fragments landed on the ground.
The Zionist military said its forces responded to the missile by bombing the "battery from which the missile was launched and additional Syrian surface-to-air batteries in the area”.
With tensions already high with Iran, the occupying regime of Israel may be seen as wanting to play down any attempted attack or risk a confrontation, the Guardian said.
The paper noted that the Zionist regime has in the past been quick to blame Syria or Iran for other alleged strikes, including when it accused Iranian forces of firing rockets at its troops in 2018.
A prominent political commentator said the missile that hit near Dimona nuclear facility laid bare the inefficiency of the regime’s much-publicized "Iron Dome” missile shield, predicting that the strike will change all the "old equations” and rules of engagement in the region.
Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor of the online Rai al-Youm daily, posted a video of himself on Twitter, in which he cast doubt on Tel Aviv’s account of the incident, suggesting that the anti-Israel resistance movement in the region — which includes Iran and Syria besides resistance groups in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq — have been behind the missile fire.
"The missile fire against Dimona heralds the start of a change in the rules of the conflict. This attempt heralds the collapse of all old equations,” he wrote in a tweet.
I”t seems that the resistance’s
strategic patience is over,” Atwan wrote in the tweet along the video. "Iron Dome proved ineffective. Those who have seen the frightened settlers flee to the shelters understand what we are saying.”
Atwan said that the missile fire "sends a clear message to the U.S. and Israel, stressing that "the resistance responds and the time to restore our dignity has arrived.”
The analyst said the reality is that the missile fire flustered the Israeli military, which later admitted that its missile systems failed to detect what he described as a "ballistic missile.”
Regarding the performance of Iron Dome, the Lebanon-based Al-Akhbar daily also published an analysis of the missile fire, which it described as "the first of its kind.”
The missile fire, it added, blew the lid off the Achilles’ heel of the Israeli missile interception system.
The daily also expressed doubts about the Zionist regime’s official account of what happened near Dimona and said Tel Aviv’s "erroneous” story raises many questions about the type of the missile, the party that has actually fired it and the reasons why Iron Dome has failed to respond.
The incident happened only weeks after Israel said it had upgraded Iron Dome, amid fears in the regime over the increasing military prowess of anti-Israel resistance groups in Lebanon and the blockaded Gaza Strip.
The incident came after a large explosion occurred at a rocket factory owned by the occupying regime of Israel in central Occupied Palestine on Tuesday morning.
The blast sent up a massive plume of fire and smoke outside the central town of Ramle, which could be seen from miles away.
The explosion took place at the Tomer military firm, which manufactures propulsion systems for a variety of rockets and missiles.
Videos of the blast were widely shared on social media, prompting speculation that that it was the result of a malfunction or sabotage, especially in light of ongoing tensions between the Zionist regime and Iran.
The Zionist military contractor claimed that the images were misleading and that it was a deliberate explosion as part of a trial, prompting ridicule among many observers.