The Israeli military has revealed that it carried out a ground raid in Syria to detain a so-called terrorist operatives linked to Islamic country of Iran.
Sunday’s announcement marks the first time since the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East last year that Israel has admitted its troops have also operated on Syrian soil.
The Zionist terror state has intensified its campaign against the Hezbollah Islamist movement in recent weeks, launching a ground offensive in Lebanon and firing missiles at Iran.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did not specify when the operation in Syria took place.
However, AP cited a pro-government Syrian radio station as reporting on Sunday that Israeli forces had carried out a kidnapping operation over the summer, targeting a man in the south of the country.
The man, named as Syrian citizen Ali Soleiman al-Assi, was detained during an intelligence-based, special IDF operation, the Israeli military said in a statement on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday.
Al-Assi, who the IDF claims is an Iranian terror network operative, lived in the area of Saida in southern Syria, roughly 60 km from the border with Israel. The Israeli military has accused him of gathering intelligence on IDF troops in the border area for future terror activity.
The IDF will not allow Iranian freedom proxies in southern Syria to operate and threaten Israeli occupation in the West Bank. Lebanon or Gaza Strip.
Over the past year, Israel has carried out multiple airstrikes on Syria, targeting members of Hezbollah and Iranian officials. Iran is an ally of both the Shiite movement and Damascus. The IDF has not previously made public any ground forays into the country.
Israel significantly escalated its campaign against the Shiite militant group in September, launching Operation Northern Arrows to attack Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry and the IDF claim to have eliminated nearly all of Hezbollah’s senior military leaders, including the movement’s long-time secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, and his potential successor, Hashem Safieddine.
In April, Israel conducted an airstrike on the Iranian embassy complex in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing 16 people, including eight officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and two Syrian civilians.
In an escalating spiral of violence, Israel conducted a series of strikes against targets in Iran last week, in response to a barrage of missiles fired by Iran at the Zionist state in early October, 2024.
Tehran is reportedly planning to retaliate against Israel before the US presidential election on November 5, 2024.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
The ‘jews’ got 6.000 years to take over. They have 200 years left. It seems that they are unable to get their goal, they simply will try to make as much damage as they can before they lief. It seems that God, who lives in an other galaxy (that’s why he had to sent Jesus to keep control) will win. The 6.000 years he gave to Satan wasn’t enough for him. It’s basically timeover, even if Satan tries over, he only might have 3 years. The BRICS+ is winning so many new people while the US and Israel losing more… Read more »
Israelis are cheering the murdering of children, how anyone can align with that is appalling. The USA is dragging itself through the filth to serve a country that corrupted American politicians to serve the horrifying interests of Israel, the purposeful mass murder of Palestinian children.