Operation Orchard

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Operation Orchard was a 2007 Israeli airstrike that covertly destroyed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in the Deir ez-Zor region.

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Label Occurrences
Operation Orchard canonical 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf airstrike
military operation
airForceCommander Eliezer Shkedi NERFINISHED
alsoKnownAs Deir ez-Zor airstrike NERFINISHED
al-Kibar airstrike NERFINISHED
belligerent Israel NERFINISHED
Syria NERFINISHED
casualties low or unreported
codename Operation Orchard NERFINISHED
conflict Syrian nuclear reactor strike
consequence halt of suspected Syrian reactor project
heightened regional tensions
country Israel
date 2007-09-06
decisionMaker Israeli security cabinet NERFINISHED
electronicWarfare use of electronic countermeasures
governmentInPowerInIsrael Ehud Olmert government NERFINISHED
intelligenceSupport imagery intelligence
signals intelligence
legalStatus controversial under international law
location Deir ez-Zor Governorate NERFINISHED
Syria NERFINISHED
method covert airstrike
militaryBranch Israeli Air Force NERFINISHED
notableFeature absence of immediate public acknowledgment by Israel
operationDomain air
operationScale limited strike
opponent Syria NERFINISHED
participant Israeli Air Force NERFINISHED
precedent Operation Opera NERFINISHED
preemptiveOrRetaliatory preemptive strike
publicDisclosureByIsrael 2018
relatedTo Israeli preventive strikes doctrine
Syrian nuclear program NERFINISHED
result Israeli tactical success
destruction of suspected nuclear reactor
secrecy highly classified at time of operation
securityClassificationInIsrael censored for several years
status completed
strategicObjective prevent Syrian acquisition of nuclear weapons capability
target al-Kibar facility NERFINISHED
suspected Syrian nuclear reactor
theater Syrian airspace
timeOfDay night
typeOfTarget military installation
nuclear facility
weaponSystemUsed fighter-bombers
precision-guided munitions
year 2007

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Operation Orchard
Description of subject: Operation Orchard was a 2007 Israeli airstrike that covertly destroyed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in the Deir ez-Zor region.

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Israeli Air Force notableOperation Operation Orchard