Iranian strike in Tel Aviv uncovered secret intel base below residential complex: Report
Iranian strike in Tel Aviv uncovered secret intel base below residential complex: Report
Israeli military censorship has prevented the release of information on the several sensitive sites struck by Iran during the 12-day war
Iran struck a tower in central Tel Aviv during the 12-day war in June that sat directly above a sensitive, underground Israeli intelligence base.
The underground bunker is jointly administered by the US and Israeli militaries and is referred to as Site 81, according to leaked emails, public documents, and Hebrew reports cited by the Gray Zone on 13 October.
The outlet has geolocated the site, which sits right under the Da Vinci apartment complex that was struck by Iranian ballistic missiles on 13 June.
It also cites an image from a 2013 US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) study revealing a “basement test site” for the construction of the underground site. The image was also geolocated to the area of the Da Vinci apartment complex.
In late June, a resident of the area told Israeli newspaper Haaretz that the apartment towers surrounding Israel’s Kyria (defense headquarters) and other sensitive sites in Tel Aviv were built to “protect” military installations, essentially serving as shields.
The area where Site 81 and the Kirya sit is densely populated. Nearby sites include the Canarit Israeli Air Force Towers,
The moment the building was hit, footage showed a Fox News reporter at the scene being aggressively rushed away by Israeli security forces.
During the war, heavy Israeli military censorship prevented the release of information on many of the sensitive army and intelligence sites struck by Iran.
Israel suspended the broadcasts of several international media organizations, threatening to detain anyone filming the sites of missile impacts.
After the 12-day war ended, Israel’s Channel 13 said that there “were a lot of Iranian missile hits on IDF bases, in strategic sites that we still don't report about,” adding that the lack of reporting due to heavy censorship has “created a situation where people don't realize how precise the Iranians were and how much damage they caused in many places.”
Several universities in Israel were heavily damaged by Iran’s ballistic missile strikes, Haaretz confirmed in a report on 30 June.
The strikes revealed the precision of Iranian missiles, which hit institutions directly associated with the defense and intelligence establishments.
On 14 June, Iran struck the Weizmann Institute of Science in the city of Rehovot, southeast of Tel Aviv, causing unprecedented damage. In the days that followed, Ben Gurion University in the Negev and Tel Aviv University were also damaged by Iranian attacks.
Around 45 labs were destroyed at the Weizmann Institute, and an additional 20 sustained damage. Forty buildings throughout the campus were also impacted.
The Iranian attack on the Weizmann Institute of Science caused around $570 million in losses, with video footage confirming the massive amount of damage to the site.
Iran has vowed to launch harsher attacks if Israel initiates a second war.
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