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Sirens warns of possible rocket attack near Israel’s Dimona reactor
Sirens have sounded in the southern Israeli district of Abu Qrenat near the Dimona nuclear reactor, the Israeli military said without immediately providing further details.
Sirens indicated a possible attack on the sensitive area. Israeli media also reported loud explosions in central Israel.
A Reuters reporter about 90 kilometres away from Abu Qrenat heard the sound of an explosion minutes before the military’s text message.
Israel’s Army Radio said that, if such an attack had taken place early on Thursday, its origin was not immediately clear.
Abu Qrenat is deeper within Israeli territory than the usual range of the rockets of Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli media have said for weeks that air defences in the area of Dimona…
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