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Footage that surfaced online on October 28 appeared to show an unexploded Israeli-made SPICE 250 precision-guided munition found in Syria’s Deir Ezzor governorate, raising questions about possible Israeli strikes on military storage sites amid a series of mysterious explosions across the country.
The munition was found three days after a powerful explosion in the al-Bujama’a area of Deir Ezzor. Syrian state broadcaster Al-Ikhbariya reported at the time that an old missile left over from the war had exploded after children lit a fire nearby and tampered with it. Footage posted to social networks, however, showed a large blast. No casualties were reported.
Another explosion rocked the outskirts of Saraqib in Idlib governorate the next day, October 26. Footage published online showed projectiles being hurled into the air uncontrollably as explosions continued across the site, with some objects resembling large rockets.
Local reports initially described the Saraqib site as an ammunition or weapons-storage facility. Al-Ikhbariya subsequently reported that Civil Defense teams had extinguished a fire following the destruction of old war remnants. The Idlib Media Directorate said there were no casualties. Notably, there was no advance public warning of the reported demolition.
The two recent explosions followed a series of deadly incidents at ammunition and weapons-storage sites across Syria. On September 1, an ammunition-laden vehicle exploded near Binnish in Idlib, killing five people. An explosion at a temporary weapons depot near Sarmada in the same governorate on September 9 killed 21 people. Later on September 18, a blast at an ammunition depot inside a Defense Ministry barracks near Ayyash in Deir Ezzor killed 11 ministry personnel and injured about 10 others.
Further explosions struck an weapons depot near al-Iss in Aleppo governorate on September 21, injuring four people, and the Taftanaz military air base in Idlib on October 2. The causes of the latter incident were not publicly established.
In an October 24 review, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights counted 37 deaths and around 27 injuries across five incidents involving weapons-storage sites since early September.
Reuters has separately recorded at least 16 explosions at Syrian arms-storage facilities since the overthrow of former President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.
The unexploded SPICE 250 provides the first physical evidence of recent covert Israeli military action against Syrian assets, adding a new dimension to the wave of explosions at weapons-storage facilities across the country.
The SPICE 250 is a compact precision-guided glide bomb with a stand-off range of up to 100 kilometers. Its ER variant adds a miniature turbojet engine, extending the advertised range to 150 kilometers. The munition’s low profile makes it especially suitable for covert strikes.
The discovery of the munition in Deir Ezzor, following the October 25 blast in the same governorate and the successive detonations near Saraqib in Idlib a day later, strengthens the picture of a sustained campaign against Syria’s military stockpiles.
Israel has conducted repeated strikes against weapons and military infrastructure in Syria for years, particularly against capabilities it considers a threat, and its military activity inside the country has not stopped with the fall of Assad.
The suspected attacks on ammunition depots fit within the broader logic of Israel’s longstanding campaign to prevent hostile military capabilities from taking root in Syria, sometimes described as a “war between the wars.”
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