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2025-03-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IDF strikes alleged Islamic Jihad nerve center in Damascus, said to be leader’s house
[IsraelTimes] Member of terror group says Ziad Nakhaleh wasn’t home and building was ’empty’ when struck, though war monitor reports one person killed

Israeli fighter jets on Thursday struck a residential building that the military said served as a Damascus headquarters for Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
to plan and carry out terror activities.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor of unclear funding, said the targeted building was located in the suburb of Dummar, northwest of the capital, and was inhabited by Paleostinians. It said one person was killed.

"The IDF will not allow terrorist organizations to entrench themselves in Syrian territory and operate against the State of Israel, and will respond forcefully to any such entrenchment," the Israel Defense Forces said. It released footage of the strikes.

A Paleostinian Islamic Jihad member at the scene of the Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in Syria told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the apartment that was targeted was the home of the terrorist organization’s leader Ziad Nakhaleh.

It was not immediately clear where Nakhaleh was, but he is believed to spend his time between Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
, 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 Syria.

The PIJ member, Ismail Sindak, said the apartment had been empty for years, adding that Nakhaleh was not in Syria. Asked whether anyone was killed in the strike, Sindak said, "The house was empty."

Paleostinian Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed terror group sworn to Israel’s destruction, participated alongside Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
in the October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, in which over 5,000 bandidos bully boyz killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, sparking the subsequent war.

PIJ, which was part of the Gaza ceasefire negotiated in January and currently up in the air, has held a number of the hostages, and likely continues to hold some of the remaining captives, of whom 24 are still believed to be alive. The bodies of 34 dead — as well as the body of a soldier killed in 2014 — are also held in the Strip.

Israel blasts ’extreme Islamic’ Syrian leader

Defense Minister Israel Katz, confirming Thursday’s strike, said, "Wherever terror activity against Israel is organized, the extreme Islamic leader al-Jolani will find the Air Force aircraft flying above and striking terror targets."

Katz was referring to Syria’s interim leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, by his nom de guerre, which he used as the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS) rebel group, an Islamist offshoot of al-Qaeda.

"Islamic terrorism will not have immunity in Damascus nor anywhere else," Katz added.

In the months since his coalition ousted longtime president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Trampler of Homs...
, Sharaa and his government have projected a moderate image, repeatedly declaring a commitment to protect minorities, including Jews, as well as Druze and Kurds, in the country.

The interim leader has objected to Israel’s continued military presence in southern Syria and to its strikes throughout the country, but he has declined to threaten Israel itself.

On Thursday, Sharaa signed the country’s constitutional declaration, which will be enforced throughout a five-year transitional period.

The interim leader said he hoped the constitutional declaration would mark the start of "a new history for Syria, where we replace oppression with justice," as he signed the document setting out the transitional period.

Israeli leaders, including Katz, have consistently stated that they do not trust Sharaa.

Jerusalem has been especially tough in its criticism in light of massacres of Alawite civilians that began last Thursday, blamed on the interim government’s security forces, amid festivities with turbans loyal to the old regime. Government reinforcements eventually restored order, and calm appeared to hold by late Monday.
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