Osirak Reactor Attack Turns into Fail

In rl Israel attacked the Iraqi Osirak Nuclear reactor to prevent Iraq from well, having a nuclear program. And as most people will tell you it was a spectacular success. So WI the attack is delayed by a few weeks or months or whatever, and the attack is launched then, maybe because of an intel ballsup on the status of the nuclear fuel or somethign, after nuclear fuel had been loaded. So the attack wastes the reactor and causes damage like in rl and Saddam shakes his fist in the air yelling at Israel. Oh and nuclear contamination gets all over the place because of the Israeli attack.

So what happens?
 
Israel still gets condemned, as IOTL, and now even more so. (Article 56 of the First Protocol to the Geneva Convention prohibits attacks on live nuclear facilities.)
Further, this could make Saddam look better in the eyes of the world, which would be a bad thing.
Finally, Israel has just asked for a strike on Dimona in the first Gulf War...
 
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