The Israeli military base, where missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons were allegedly stored, was hit by a missile attack on October 7. The newspaper writes about this New York Timeshe quotes satellite images.
According to his information, a rocket, probably fired by the radical Palestinian movement Hamas, hit the Israeli military base Sdot Micha. According to experts, this base hosts many missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The missiles were not damaged, but the attack caused a fire in the immediate area, the publication said.
Israel has never officially confirmed the existence of nuclear weapons, but a Nuclear Research Center has been located in the north of the country for more than half a century, where, according to unconfirmed reports, up to 40 kg of plutonium is produced annually. In the 80s. October 11 media reportedthat the center could be attacked from Lebanon.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s “Iron Swords” intervention operation was to repel the attack, free more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. November 5, as part of the ground operation of IDF forces surrounded We cut off Gaza city from its food source.
Previously Medvedev stated About the possibility of a hundred-year war in the Middle East.