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Israel hits Syria site reportedly used for chemical weapons
 [Hurriyet Daily News] The Syrian army said Israel targeted a military site in Hama province early on Sept. 7 which a war monitor said could be linked to chemical weapons production. The The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war, said the strike hit a Scientific Studies and Research Centre facility, an agency which the United States describes as Syria's chemical weapons manufacturer. The strike took place the morning after U.N. Sherlocks said the Syrian government was responsible for a sarin poison gas attack in April. Syria's government denies using chemical weapons and in 2013 it promised to surrender its chemical weapons programme, which it says it has done. The Observatory said strikes also hit a military camp next to the centre that was used to store ground-to-ground rockets and where personnel of Iran and its ally, the Lebanese Hezbollah group, had been seen more than once. An Israeli army spokeswoman declined to discuss reports of a strike in Syria. Israeli officials have in the past admitted that Israel has repeatedly struck weapons shipments believed to be bound for the Hezbollah, an ally of Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Trampler of Homs... , without specifying which ones. Posted by: Fred 2017-09-08 |
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