Hagari: IDF will not permit weapons trafficking to Hezbollah from Syria

Hagari: IDF will not permit weapons trafficking to Hezbollah from Syria

 JERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS

Israel will attack any attempt to bring weapons to Hezbollah from Syria, IDF chief spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Thursday.

“We are identifying rockets and other weapons that Hezbollah is launching at Israeli territory that were manufactured in Syria,” R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari told reporters. “We will attack every attempt to bring weapons from Syria to Hezbollah. And we will attack all infrastructure we identify in Syria whose purpose is to produce weapons for Hezbollah.”

He added that the military has been carrying out airstrikes from Beirut suburb and Hezbollah stronghold Dahiyeh to Damascus.

He was speaking shortly after Syria’s state news agency reported what it said was an Israeli airstrike that hit a bridge in Syria in the area of Qusayr near the border with northern Lebanon.

The IDF said earlier that it struck military sites and command centers belonging to Palestinian Islamic Jihad – located in Syria. “Alongside Hamas… PIJ directed by its leaders outside the Gaza Strip, participated in the murderous attack on October 7th,” said the military, adding that PIJ has been actively assisting Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Syrian state media reported that 15 people were killed in Israeli strikes on residential buildings in Damascus. A Syrian military source said that the buildings targeted were located in the suburbs of Mazzeh and Qudsaya, both in the west of the Syrian capital, according to SANA.

“The terrorist organization is an additional Iranian proxy acting under the direct instruction of Iran. Moreover, the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization operates in Syria under the cover of the Syrian Regime,” said the IDF.

IAF strikes PIJ headquarters embedded in Syria's Damascus

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IAF fighter jets struck commander centers and terrorist infrastructure belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in Syria's Damascus, the military confirmed on Thursday afternoon. 

Fifteen people were killed and 16 injured in Israeli attacks on a number of residential buildings in suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, state news agency SANA reported, citing a Syrian military source.

One building was located in the Damascus suburb of Mazzeh and the other in Qudsaya, west of the capital.

Israeli army radio said the targets of the attack in Damascus were assets and the headquarters of the Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad.

An IDF spokesperson confirmed later on Thursday that IAF fighter jets struck military buildings and headquarters of the Islamic Jihad terror organization in Syria. The PIJ terror group was credited with assisting Hezbollah in its efforts to target the State of Israel under Iranian direction.

The military further accused the Syrian regime of protecting the terror group.

Commanders in Lebanon's Hezbollah armed group and Iran's Revolutionary Guards based in Syria have been known to reside in Mazzeh, according to residents who fled after recent strikes that killed some key figures from the groups.