Israel on Monday targeted Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Syria.
In a post on X, the IDF stated, “The IDF conducted an aerial operation and struck terror targets belonging to Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Syria.” The post continued, “In recent weeks, the IDF has significantly degraded Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters, destroying military intelligence assets in Lebanon and damaging the organization’s intelligence-gathering capabilities. The targeting of Hezbollah’s military intelligence assets in Syria further contributes to the IDF operations in Lebanon, undermining the intelligence abilities of the Hezbollah terrorist organization.”
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Earlier, Israeli forces entered Syria to arrest a terror operative collaborating with Iranian agents, as disclosed by the IDF on Sunday evening. Soldiers from the elite Egoz commando unit apprehended Ali Suleiman al-Aadi, a Syrian national residing in the southern town of Saida. The IDF reported that al-Aadi had been gathering intelligence on Israeli forces near the border for potential terror activities. He was under surveillance and is now in Israel for interrogation. “The IDF will continue to work for the security of the borders and will not allow the establishment of the Iranian axis and the directing of hostile sabotage activity from southern Syria,” the army asserted.
The IDF also released footage of al-Aadi revealing his recruitment by Iran. “We sat together on the fence. [He] looked around like this and said, ‘Your area is good from a strategic point of view. We could profit from it,'” al-Aadi recounted. He explained that the Iranian agent had posed as a Syrian military intelligence officer interested in the movements of Israeli border patrols. “He said he was from military intelligence, but in fact, Iran was behind him. From what I understand, he belongs to Iran,” al-Aadi stated.
In recent days, Iranian officials have intensified their rhetoric regarding potential attacks following the Israeli Air Force’s strikes on military bases and air defense systems on October 26.
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