The U.S. intelligence community has determined that Israeli jets bombed a Hezbollah weapons depot containing advanced Russian weaponry inside Syria earlier this month.

“Oh, God, every time something happens in the Middle East, Israel is accused. Most often, it’s accused—and I’m not in the habit of saying what we did or we didn’t do,” Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu said July 14 on CBS’s Face the Nation. “I’ll tell you what my policy is. My policy is to prevent the transfer of dangerous weapons to Hezbollah and other terror groups, Hezbollah in Lebanon and other terror groups as well. And we stand by that policy.”

But a July 10 assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency, reported here for the first time, found that Israel was in fact responsible for the explosions in the Syrian coastal town of Latakia on July 5—the third known Israeli strike inside Syria since the civil war there began in 2011. The DIA used U.S. satellite imagery and other kinds of technical intelligence to determine that Israeli jets firing precision-guided munitions destroyed a Russian shipment of Yakhont anti-ship missiles, according to a U.S. official who had seen the intelligence.

The State Department has objected to shipments of the Yakhont missile since December 2011, when reports first surfaced of Russian transfers of the weapon. The U.S. Navy has taken a keen interest in the missile in recent years because the missiles are equipped with instruments capable of jamming air-defense radars.

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