IDF hits Hezbollah sites near Syria-Lebanon border

"Following intelligence, the IAF struck weapons-storage facilities and command centers used by Hezbollah’s Radwan Forces and its Munitions Unit," said the military.

Israeli Air Force aircraft struck terrorist infrastructure used by Hezbollah in the Syrian city of Al-Qusayr, located near the border with Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed on Thursday afternoon.

“Following IDF intelligence, the IAF struck weapons-storage facilities and command centers used by Hezbollah’s Radwan Forces and its Munitions Unit in the area of Al-Qusayr, Syria,” the military stated.

“Hezbollah’s Munitions Unit is responsible for storing weapons inside Lebanon and has recently expanded its activities into the town of Al-Qusayr, near the Syrian-Lebanese border,” the IDF statement added. “With this, Hezbollah is establishing logistical infrastructure to facilitate the transfer of weapons from Syria into Lebanon via border crossings.”

According to the Israeli military, “The Hezbollah terrorist organization endangers the security of Syrian and Lebanese civilians by embedding command centers and forces in civilian areas in both these countries.”

Israel rarely admits to attacks on Syrian territory, although in February Jerusalem revealed that it had struck more than 50 targets belonging to Hezbollah and other Iran-backed terror groups in Syria since Oct. 7, 2023.

As the IAF struck military targets in Iran over the weekend, on Oct. 26, 2024, Damascus’s SANA outlet reported simultaneous strikes across Syria, amid Tehran’s decades-long effort to entrench itself on Israel’s northern border.

On Oct. 8, Syrian media reported that an IAF strike targeted a building in Damascus, killing seven people and wounding 11 others. According to Ynet, the target was Haj Samer, a senior official in Hezbollah’s Unit 4400, responsible for transferring Iranian arms to the terrorist group.

One week prior, three people were killed and nine wounded in alleged Israeli airstrikes in the Syrian capital. Israeli “aircraft and drones” struck several targets in the city, causing “significant” damage, according to the official Syrian Arab News Agency, citing a regime military source.

Last month, two people were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle traveling between Quneitra and Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based war monitor affiliated with Syria’s opposition, claimed that a “military figure” was killed in the strike.

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