By Xinhua
Jerusalem : Israeli authorities Tuesday lifted a gag order on Israel’s alleged air strike against Syrian targets last month as Israeli media confirmed the attack.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) lifted the censorship on the fact that Israeli Air Force had carried out an air strike against a target deep inside Syrian territory on Sep 6, Israel’s mass circulation, the Ha’aretz reported.
Even though the IDF had lifted the order, it has not revealed any detail on the strike and its purpose.
An IDF spokeswoman told Xinhua that there was no information available or comments on the operation, which was reported by Western media as targeting a nuclear facility in northeastern Syria, allegedly built by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
But both Syria and the DPRK had vehemently denied any nuclear cooperation.
The IDF censor had prevented the Israeli media from reporting on the strike, unless the reports were based on revelations in foreign press.
At present, Israel has refused to divulge the details of the air strike, including the target, the outcome of the strike and the circumstance that led to it.
On Sep 6, the Syrian news agency SANA reported that an Israeli fighter jet had breached the Syrian airspace, flying northeast and breaking the sound barrier.
Two weeks after the strike, in an interview with Israel’s Channel One news, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the Israel’s operation in Syria.
Netanyahu, former Israeli prime minister, said he was briefed on Olmert’s decision to carry out the operation in Syria and gave Olmert his backing and congratulated him.