The Israeli navy has stated that it carried out a floor operation in Syria on Sunday and seized a resident of Syria who allegedly was concerned in Iranian networks. It’s the first time, because the Center East hostilities began final yr, that Israel has introduced that it carried out a floor raid in Syria.
Although, the Syrian authorities has not confirmed the event, in accordance with information company Related Press. Since October final yr, Israel has carried out a number of airstrikes in Syria and focused members of Lebanon primarily based Hezbollah militant group and officers of Iran, which is an in depth ally of Hezbollah and Syria. However there wasn’t any floor invasion by Israel.
Throughout an intelligence-based, particular IDF operation, IDF troopers detained an Iranian terror community operative in Syria named Ali Soleiman al-Assi.
Al-Assi, a Syrian citizen who lives within the space of Saida in southern Syria, was underneath IDF surveillance and was discovered to be a… pic.twitter.com/Q2yAGIliiC
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The Israeli raid in Syria comes as Tel Aviv has unleashed a marketing campaign of bombardment in Lebanon, focusing on Hezbollah’s management, infrastructure and monetary route and it additionally launched a floor operation in opposition to Hezbollah.
The Israeli military recognized the Syrian man as Al-Assi however didn’t element when or the place the raid befell in Syria.
The Israeli Protection Power (IDF), in a submit on X stated, “Al-Assi, a Syrian citizen who lives within the space of Saida in southern Syria, was underneath IDF surveillance and was discovered to be a terrorist operative. His exercise included gathering intelligence on IDF troops within the border space for future terror exercise of the community.”
The navy knowledgeable that the person, Al-Assi, was dropped at Israel for additional interrogation and added that he had been underneath the surveillance of the navy for a number of months.
The IDF uploaded a video of the Syrian man who was detained and wrote, “The operation prevented a future assault and led to the publicity of the operational strategies of Iranian terror networks situated close to the Golan Heights. Al-Assi was transferred for additional investigation. The footage is from the interrogation of al-Assi.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who visited the border of Israel alongside Lebanon on Sunday stated that his focus was making an attempt to maintain Hezbollah from rearming itself by means of the “oxygen lifeline” of Iranian weapons transferred to Lebanon by way of Syria, reported AP.
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