In last night’s televised debate in New Hampshire, when asked about Iran, leading Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton came close to confirming the widespread rumor that earlier this month Israel took out a Syrian nuclear facility, built with North Korean aid.

When asked if she would support a U.S. air strike against Iran’s nuclear program, she dodged the question but instead said: “Attacking Iran is a hypothetical question… What Israel did in Syria is real life.”

She went on to say (according to these Israeli press accounts): “What we think we know is that with North Korean help, both financial and technical and material, the Syrians apparently were putting together, and perhaps over some period of years, a nuclear facility, and the Israelis took it out. I strongly support that… there was evidence of a North Korea freighter coming in with supplies. There was intelligence and other kinds of verification.” Meanwhile the Al-Sinara newspaper today reports that Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni held a secret meeting for over an hour yesterday with Syrian foreign minister Walid Moallem at the U.N. headquarters in New York. The meeting was arranged by Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, according to Al-Sinara.

An Arab source told Al-Sinara said that Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Gillerman and Syrian Ambassador to the U.S. Mohammed Nassif were also present at the meeting.

Neither Israeli nor Syrian officials will confirm the report.