News Brief

(IsraelNN.com) The United Nations has admitted that a wrong interpretation of remarks by the Syrian ambassador was responsible for the false report that Damascus confirmed the Israeli aerial strike in September hit a nuclear facility. Syria quickly denied that the envoy made the statement, and the U.N. later confirmed that an "interpretation error [was] made."

The ambassador, referring to the strike, actually stated "...the [entity] that is ranking number four among the exporters of lethal weapons in the world; that which violates the airspace of sovereign states and carries out military aggression against them, like what happened on September 6 against my country, such entity...has no right for its representative to go on lying without shame..."

The government-run Syrian news agency said of the original report mentioning that Israel hit a nuclear site, "Such facilities do not exist in Syria."