Baghdad On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of what is known as “Operation Opera”, Israel published a package of documents related to its air raid on the Iraqi “Osirak” nuclear reactor on June 7, 1981.

These documents from the Israeli army archive, published by the Defense Ministry on Tuesday, include hand drawings of the reactor that Tel Aviv feared that former regime leader Saddam Hussein might use to develop nuclear weapons, including drawings showing a scene of the reactor from a fighter.

The Ministry explained that these drawings were part of the intelligence data during the planning of “Operation Opera.”

In this package, the Ministry also published a report issued after the attack was carried out, including a written order from the army commander to carry out the operation and the government’s decision to start planning the attack in 1980, and consultations on its date.

This package includes a memorandum stipulating the postponement of “Operation Opera”, which was originally scheduled for May 31, for a week due to the meeting that took place on the fourth of June between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Sharm El-Sheikh.

These documents also include recorded confessions of the military pilot and the first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, who participated in “Operation Oprah” and died in 2003 as a result of the disaster of the crash of the American space shuttle “Columbia”.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency