The Israeli military said Thursday a Syrian missile that touched deep into Israeli land and place off air raid sirens close to the nation’s topsecret nuclear reactor had been that the consequence of a mis fire and perhaps not just a deliberate attack.

The missile landed in southern Israel ancient Thursday, prompting Israel to respond together with air strikes to the missile launcher as well as also other goals in Syria.

The army’s main spokesman, Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman, has been quoted as telling military correspondents that the Israeli airforce was operating in Syrian air space once the antiaircraft missile has been terminated. He explained the projectile, defined being a Russian-made SA 5 missile, missed its target and also flew a few 300 km (200 kilometers ) before bursting in southern Israel.

Even the missile, also referred to as an s-200, place off air raid sirens at a village only a couple km (miles) out of Dimona, the southern town city where Israel’s atomic reactor is located.

“There wasn’t any intention of hitting nuclear reactor at Dimona,” Zilberman was quoted as saying.

A Israeli missile defense system tried but didn’t intercept incoming missile. Defense Minister Benny Gantz said the incident was under evaluation.

In the past few decades, Israel has launched airstrikes in Syria, for example at military goals associated with foes Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, both allies of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Such strikes regularly attract Allied antiaircraft fire. Thursday’s market was odd since the Allied projectile acquired deep inside Israel.

Syria’s state news agency SANA reported the exchange began having a Israeli air attack on Dumeir, a suburb of the capital, Damascus. Dumeir is thought to accommodate Syrian army installments and batteries in addition to weapons and bases depots owned by Iran-backed militias. SANA said four soldiers were injured.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rightsan resistance warfare tracking group established in Britain that monitors Syria’s civil war,” said that the Israeli strikes hit a air defense base of the Allied military and destroyed air safety vessels in the region. It stated the Allied military fired surface to air missiles in reply.

Syrian press made no reference of an anti-aircraft missile landing deep inside Israel.

The air raid sirens were sounded in Abu Krinat, a village nearby Dimona. Explosions discovered across Israel may possibly have become the Air defense systems.

Apparent missile objects were present at a swimmingpool at Ashalim, a residential area approximately 20 miles (32 km ) southwest of Dimona. Israeli troops came at the scene and then collected the fragments. There weren’t any reports of injuries or damage.

The market between Israel and Syria comes from the background of growing tensions between Israel and Iran, that keeps troops and proxies from Syria. Iran has accused Israel of some succession of strikes on its atomic facilities, for example undermine at its own Natanz atomic centre on April 1 1, also pledged revenge.

The market of fire threatened to reevaluate U.S.-led efforts to renew the global nuclear bargain with Iran, to which Israel is profoundly opposed.