
Black Ops: The Strike on Syria
In September 2007, Israeli F-15 jets crossed into Syrian airspace and destroyed a remote facility at Al-Kibar in the country's eastern desert. The operation, codenamed Orchard, targeted what intelligence agencies believed was a nuclear reactor built with North Korean help, modeled closely on the Yongbyon facility in North Korea. The film reconstructs how Mossad obtained the evidence, reportedly including photographs pulled from a Syrian official's computer, and how Israeli and American officials debated whether to strike or expose the site diplomatically. Neither Damascus nor Jerusalem said much publicly at the time, and that near-total silence becomes part of the story: a raid deep inside a hostile state that both sides had reasons to bury. Drawing on interviews, satellite imagery, and archival footage, the documentary traces the intelligence trail from suspicion to confirmation to the bombing run itself, and considers what the episode reveals about nuclear proliferation networks operating outside public view.