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Claire Berlinski @ClaireBerlinski
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Lots of rumors: Al-Mayadeen (Hezbollah) says Israel attacked the airbase with missiles.

Sky News says it's an Iranian ammunition depot where Shia militias operate.

Unconfirmed reports hopefully claiming it was a chemical weapons plant used by Assad regime.
Al-Ikhbariya (state-run Syrian TV) blames electrical short circuit.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it was likely an Israeli missile strike, cites "official in the regional alliance backing Damascus" who agrees Israeli missiles from across the Golan Heights did it.
Sputnik says the blasts were caused by Syrian anti-aircraft systems destroying the missiles (which were, they say, targeting the military base at Mazzeh) and causing them to go off course to a munitions dump.
The Times of Israel says Israel could, theoretically, have done it.

Al Jazeera says the attacks seem to have been targeting an arms depot and weapons research center near Jamraya. They say Syria's anti-aircraft system shot down a few missiles--
--but the rest landed in Mazzeh and in suburbs west of Damascus.

Jerusalem Post cites "an official in the regional alliance," who says the blasts were caused by missile strikes targeting the base and by Syrian air defense systems responding.

Israel has no comment.
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