IDF Says It Raided a Site in Assad-Ruled Syria in September

The Israeli military said the underground missile manufacturing plant, which Israeli intelligence had tracked for years, was about to go operational.

People inspect a damaged area after what the IDF later reported to have been a strike and commando raid on an underground strategic missile manufacturing plant in Masyaf, Hama Province, Syria on the night of Sept. 8–9, 2024. Reuters/Firas Makdesi/File Photo

The Israeli military confirmed on Jan. 2 that months before the Assad regime’s fall, its special forces had raided an underground missile manufacturing site in Syria.

The Iranian manufacturing site was designed to produce hundreds of strategic missiles per year for use by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group against Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated.