IDF special forces inside a Syrian missile complex in September 2024. (IDF Spokesman’s Unit)
FOX NEWS | Published January 4, 2025
IDF uncovered information about Syria’s chemical weapons program in raid
JERUSALEM — Elite Israeli forces conducted a dramatic raid in Syria, destroying a secret underground long-range missile factory that also contained information about Syria’s chemical weapons program in September, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
The IDF first revealed the mission Thursday in a call with reporters.
“This is one of our most significant and complex special operations in recent years, even in this complex year and a half,” IDF spokesperson Nadav Shoshani said.
The IDF provided spectacular footage of the Israeli commandos during the daring mission as well as the massive explosion of the subterranean complex after the troops had cleared it.
“The precision-guided missile factory or facility was dug into the side of a mountain underground,” the IDF spokesperson said.
Information about Syria’s chemical weapons program was uncovered during the mission.
“I have seen some of them — notebooks and documents — and a lot of them contain very specific chemicals,” Shoshani said. “One of them that I saw was a chemical handbook that describes how to manufacture a missile at the end of the raid. The troops dismantled the facility, including the machines and the manufacturing, to ensure the safety of Israel.”
Assad’s regime repeatedly used chemical weapons on his population during the nearly 14-year civil war that ripped apart the country. The U.S.-designated terrorist movement Hezbollah played a key role in aiding Assad’s regime during the civil war.
The factory was designed to manufacture between 150-350 missiles a year, including precision-guided missiles (PGM), according to the IDF. Commandoes from the IDF’s elite air force unit Shaldag participated in the mission. The IDF said 30 Syrian soldiers were killed during the operation.
The IDF spokesperson told reporters the operation “was aimed at an Iranian-funded precision-guided missile factory inside Syrian territory near the border with Lebanon. This facility was designed to manufacture hundreds of strategic missiles per year from start to finish for Hezbollah to use in their aerial attacks on Israel and for its Iranian axis in Syria.
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SOURCE: www.foxnews.com
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Israeli Special Forces boarding a CH-53 Yas’ur helicopter on their way to the raid. (Image credit: Israeli Defense Forces)
THE AVIATIONIST | Published January 4, 2025
On Sept. 8, 2024, months before the final collapse of the Assad regime, elite Israeli Air Force units assaulted an Iranian facility in Syrian territory, over 124 miles from Israel, destroyed the missile-making complex, and exfiltrated unscathed after 2.5 hours.
Israel has recently revealed footage and details of a daring and complex raid that was carried out in early September 2024. Codenamed Mivtza Ravot Hadrachim (Hebrew for “Operation Many Ways”), the raid involved over 120 special forces personnel, of which 100 from the Shaldag Special Forces unit of the Israeli Air Force and 20 from the Unit 669 combat search and rescue unit.
The raid was aimed at an underground precision-guided missile facility, codenamed “Deep Layer,” managed by Iran in Syrian territory. The facility was used for the production of weapons for the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, for the forces of dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria and for other Iranian proxy militias.
The facility
Built within a mountain, 70 to 130 meters underground (from 230 to 430 ft) and almost impossible to destroy by aerial bombing, the facility was hidden beneath the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC) in Masyaf and was over 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of Israel. The location also had the second-highest concentration of air defense systems in Syria, behind only the capital Damascus.
The facility had been built from 2017, after Israel already destroyed an above-ground facility in the same location. Construction was completed by 2021, and the facility was now close to being declared operational after all equipment was delivered and the first missiles produced.
The goal was to considerably speed up the process of delivering modern missiles to Hezbollah which, until that point, had to await shipments to arrive from inside Iran. IDF estimates place the expected output of “Deep Layer” at between 100 and 300 missiles every year.
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SOURCE: www.theaviationist.com
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