Israel prevents Iran from forming “second Hezbollah” in Syria – IDF
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) disrupted the formation of “a second Hezbollah” in Syria by Iran, as the latter tried to deploy hundreds of missiles in Syria, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi said on Tuesday.
Iran tried to “deploy hundreds of surface-to-surface missiles in Syria alongside tens of thousands of Shia militiamen,” Kohavi said at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Syria soon and he will see that there is “a lot less weaponry and fewer bases and forces,” that happened due to Israel’s “war between wars.”
“War between wars” is the IDF’s name for the covert military campaign that has been waging against Iranian efforts to entrench itself in Syria for ten years.
Israel has repeatedly hit Iranian targets in Syria, including weapons’ depots and military posts, to foil Iran’s attempts to smuggle weapon to ally Hezbollah and to cripple the Islamic country’s activity in the war-torn country.
The IDF will be ready to attack Iranian nuclear program once it get the green light to act, as Israel is carrying out at least one operation against Iran per week somewhere throughout the Middle East, according to Kohavi.
On Dec. 20, a number of soldiers of the Syrian government forces were killed and wounded in Israeli airstrikes, targeting a site in Rif Dimashq.
“Two unidentified gunmen, likely to belong to Lebanese Hezbollah, were killed due to the Israeli attacks near Damascus International Airport,” Syrian Observatory for Human Right (SOHR) reported.
A Hezbollah warehouse, containing weapons and logistic materials in a farm located between Saida Zainab and al-Bajdaliyah, were targeted and destroyed completely during the airstrikes, as well as casualties were reported in the site, SOHR reported.