ISRAEL confirmed today that the piratical destruction in 2007 of what it called a nuclear facility in the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor was carried out by its own warplanes.

“During the night of September 5-6 2007, the Israeli air force destroyed a nuclear facility in its last stages of construction … Four F-16 jets eliminated a nuclear threat not only to Israel but to the entire region,” a self-serving statement issued by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said.

According to the IDF, the Military Intelligence Directorate had been monitoring the Syrian nuclear project for two years before the air strikes, which lasted for four hours.