Israel lifts blackout and admits Syria strike

ISRAEL lifted its official veil of silence over last month’s strike in Syria yesterday, as army radio said the Jewish state carried out the attack deep inside its arch foe’s territory.

The Israeli military censor lifted a blackout on publishing the information on the September 6 strike, in which Syria had said its air defences fired on Israeli warplanes that dropped ammunition inside its territory.

“The military censor has authorised for the first time the publication of the fact that Israeli combat planes attacked a military target deep inside Syrian territory on September 6,” radio reports said.