The “particular operation” was aimed toward detaining an Iran-linked “terrorist operative,” the IDF has mentioned
Israel has carried out a floor raid in Syria to detain “a terrorist operative” linked to Iran, the Israeli navy mentioned on Sunday. The announcement marks the primary time because the escalation of the battle within the Center East final yr that Israel has admitted to its troops working on Syrian soil.
The Jewish state has intensified its marketing campaign towards Islamist motion Hezbollah in latest weeks, launching a floor offensive in Lebanon and firing missiles at Iran.
The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) didn’t specify when the operation in Syria befell. Nevertheless, the AP cited a pro-government Syrian radio station as reporting on Sunday that Israeli forces had carried out a “kidnapping operation” over the summer season concentrating on a person within the south of the nation.
The person, named as Syrian citizen Ali Soleiman al-Assi, was detained “throughout an intelligence-based, particular IDF operation,” the Israeli navy mentioned in an announcement on X (previously Twitter) on Sunday.
Al-Assi, who the IDF claims is an Iranian terror community operative, lived within the space of Saida in southern Syria, roughly 60km from the border with Israel. The Israeli navy has accused him of “gathering intelligence on IDF troops within the border space for future terror exercise.”
“The IDF is not going to permit Iranian proxies in southern Syria to function and threaten Israeli civilians,” the assertion mentioned.
Over the previous yr, Israel has carried out a number of airstrikes on Syria, concentrating on members of Hezbollah and Iranian officers. Iran is an ally of each the Shiite motion and Damascus. The IDF has not beforehand made public any floor forays into the nation.
Israel and Hezbollah have sporadically exchanged hearth because the Jewish state launched a navy operation in Gaza in response to the lethal Hamas incursion on October 7 final yr.
Israel considerably escalated its marketing campaign towards the Shiite militant group in September, launching Operation Northern Arrows to assault Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli Overseas Ministry and the IDF declare to have “eradicated” almost all of Hezbollah’s senior navy leaders, together with the motion’s long-time secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, and his potential successor, Hashem Safieddine.
In April, Israel performed an airstrike on the Iranian embassy advanced within the Syrian capital Damascus, killing 16 individuals, together with eight officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and two Syrian civilians.
In an escalating spiral of violence, Israel performed a sequence of strikes towards targets in Iran final week, in response to an enormous barrage of missiles fired by Iran on the Jewish state in early October. Tehran is reportedly planning to retaliate towards Israel earlier than the US presidential election on November 5.
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