The Israeli military Thursday released information and video from the undercover operation it carried out to destroy the underground precision missile manufacturing facility financed by Iran inside Syria. According to Israel, this happened on September 8, 2024. According to the Israeli Air Force, over a hundred Kingfisher fighters participated in the “special Air Force operation”.
Sharing footage of the operation, the Israeli Defence Forces on X wrote, “In September 2024, before the fall of the Assad Regime, our soldiers conducted an undercover operation to dismantle an Iranian-funded underground precision missile production site in Syria.”
“The operation took place on September 8,” the IDF wrote in another tweet. Another footage, captioned by the Israeli Air Force, said: “Now we can reveal: Over 100 Kingfisher fighters raided and destroyed an underground site for the production of precision missiles, in a special Air Force operation last September, in the Masyaf area deep inside Syria.
The fighters landed in the area by helicopters, accompanied by a fire cover and collection of aircraft, fighter jets, and naval ships. The target of the raid was an underground site deep inside Syria that was built with Iranian funding and support,” the Israeli Air Force wrote in another post.
The forces reached critical machinery for the production process of precision missiles, including a planetary mixer, numerous weapons and intelligence documents that were transferred for investigation. The fighters destroyed the compound and returned to the country safely,” it said.
Later, in a speech, Air Force Commander Major General Tomer Bar said, “During this justified war, there was something that would be vital to the state’s existence. Now that we stand here, on the ground in peace for a moment after we have achieved the mission, we can proudly say: We did a great deed for Israel’s safety.”
