Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said Israel had observed the plant, dug into a mountainside, since construction began in 2017 and was on the point of being able to manufacture precision-guided missiles
in September that it said was primed to produce hundreds of precision missiles for use against Israel by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
“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.”since construction began in 2017 and was on the point of being able to manufacture precision-guided missiles, some with a range of up to 300 km .Details of the Sept. 8 raid have been reported in Israeli media but Shoshani said this was the first confirmation by the military, which rarely comments on special forces operations.
“At the end of the raid, the troops dismantled the facility, including the machines and the manufacturing equipment, themselves,” he said.
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