The IDF said that this operation had helped them eliminate a nuclear threat, not only to Israel, but to the entire region as a few years later, the Daesh* terrorist group captured most of Deir ez-Zor Governorate and the consequence of using this facility could have been unpredictable.
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Footage has been released, showing the airstrikes conducted by the Israeli Air Force.
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*Daesh (also known as ISIS/ISIL/IS) is a terrorist group banned in Russia