🔽BREAKING:
Iranian missile breaches defences at Dimona, the home of Israel’s nuclear programme
This was a very significant attack on what is a very strategically important city.
Dimona is pretty much the home of Israel’s nuclear program in the Negev Desert down in the south of the country. It does appear that one ballisti missile got through its defenses and there was a direct strike.
We also understand that there were several other impacts reported around the city, the number of casualties has been put now at over 50, most of those requiring hospital treatment with one 12-year-old boy said to be in a very serious condition with shrapnel injuries.
According to the Iranians, this was in retaliation for the attack on its Natanz nuclear facility. Now Israel has said it didn’t take part in that attack and that it was an American operation. But Israel has accepted responsibility for other attacks recently, including one on what they say was a nuclear weapons research centre at a university in Tehran.
Dimona has been the subject of attacks throughout Saturday.
There has been a total of seven air raid alerts in the city as missiles tried to get through. Given the strategic importance of this city and also the fact that Israel prides itself on intercepting a high ratio of incoming missiles, there is going to be an investigation into how this missile got through.
By Rob McBride
Per Al-Jazeera
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