Did Israel just launch a sensitive ground raid in Syria?

Sources detail a complex operation on SSRC facilities in Masyaf

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Late on Sunday September 8, Israel launched its heaviest airstrikes in Syria in years, hitting a series of Syrian military targets around the town of Masyaf in Hama, along with facilities linked to the regime’s Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC), including an underground bunker complex. By the end of the night, local sources confirmed 19 dead and 37 injured.

SSRC facilities in Masyaf – specifically linked to the SSRC’s highly secretive Institute 4000 – have been hit by Israel at least a dozen times in recent years, given their previous association with Syria’s short-lived nuclear weapons program (and Syria’s al-Kibar plutonium reactor) as well as for their role in the production of chemical weapons and associated delivery mechanisms.