‘Errant Syrian missile’ fired at Israeli jet hits Negev

Incoming rocket sirens were triggered in the northern Negev in the area near Israel’s nuclear reactor in the predawn hours of Thursday morning, followed by massive explosions that could be heard throughout much of the country.

The Israel Defense Forces said the sirens in the northern Negev, not far from the country’s nuclear reactor, were set off not by a directed attack on a target within Israel but by an errant Syrian anti-aircraft missile that had been fired at an Israeli jet during an airstrike on targets in the Syrian Golan Heights.