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2024-10-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli strike in Syria said to target top Hezbollah official in arms smuggling unit
[IsraelTimes] Syrian state media reports 7 killed in Damascus after building hit near Iranian embassy; not immediately clear if reported assassination attempt successful

An alleged Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on Damascus Tuesday targeted a top Hezbollah official who is part of a unit tasked with delivering weapons from Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and its proxies to the terror group in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, according to a Saudi report.

Syria’s state-run SANA news agency claimed seven non-combatants were killed and 11 others were maimed in the strike, which hit a residential and commercial building in the Mezzeh district of the capital a few hundred meters from the Iranian embassy.

Multiple reports said the targeted building is linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

SANA cited a military source who said the strike also caused "significant material damage." It added that rescue forces were still working to extract people from under the rubble.

State media earlier claimed that Syria’s air defenses had intercepted "hostile" targets in the vicinity of Damascus.
"We intercepted the attack with several targets buildings"
The Saudi news outlet al-Hadath reported the target of the Damascus strike was a member of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400, but did not say if the attempt was successful. The IDF has overseen efforts in recent weeks to stop the unit’s arms smuggling to Hezbollah.

Last week, the commander of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400, Muhammad Ja’far, was killed in a strike in Beirut, while his brother was reportedly killed days later in an alleged Israeli strike in Damascus.

On Friday, the IDF said that fighter jets struck a two-mile-long tunnel that crossed between Lebanon and Syria, and which the military said was used by Unit 4400 to smuggle weapons.

Last month, it was reported that Israeli special forces carried out a massive raid on an Iranian weapons facility in the Masyaf area in Syria, killing at least 14 people, wounding 43, and sparking fires.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-09 2024-10-09 01:03|| || Front Page|| [11161 views ]  Top
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