Official: Israel Has Struck Dozens of Hezbollah Targets in Syria

The town of Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights (EPA)
The town of Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights (EPA)
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Official: Israel Has Struck Dozens of Hezbollah Targets in Syria

The town of Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights (EPA)
The town of Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights (EPA)

Hezbollah has not yet responded to statements that over the past three years, the Israeli army has attacked dozens of Hezbollah targets in Syria, a senior Israeli security official said on Saturday.

This is surprising since the attacks severely hampered the organization's logistical and operational efforts to establish itself in the southern Golan Heights and the border triangle with Jordan.

Sources affirmed that the Israeli army maintains a high deterrent capability against the Shiite group.

Hezbollah, with the help of Iran, is preparing for the possibility of attacking the home front and Israeli army soldiers stationed on the border with Syria in the future, they added.

Some of its weapons came from Iran by sea, and some by land or air via convoys to the Syrian Golan Heights.

In some places, operatives working in the name of Hezbollah managed to set up weapons depots that the Israeli Air Force attacked, according to foreign publications, and destroyed them.



Syrians Protest to Demand Answers about Loved Ones Who Disappeared under Assad’s Rule

Wafaa Mustafa, center, holds a picture of her missing father during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 2024. (AP)
Wafaa Mustafa, center, holds a picture of her missing father during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 2024. (AP)
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Syrians Protest to Demand Answers about Loved Ones Who Disappeared under Assad’s Rule

Wafaa Mustafa, center, holds a picture of her missing father during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 2024. (AP)
Wafaa Mustafa, center, holds a picture of her missing father during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 2024. (AP)

Dozens of relatives of missing Syrians gathered Friday in Damascus to demand answers about the fate of their loved ones, as many Syrians have been missing for years, some disappearing after being detained by the now-toppled government of Bashar al-Assad.

The gathering comes nearly three weeks after the opposition freed dozens of people from Syrian prisons following the fall of Assad’s government. Since then, no additional detainees have been found, leaving thousands of families still in anguish over the fate of their missing relatives.

Relatives have been traveling across Syria in search of information.

“We accept nothing less than knowing all details related to what happened to them,” said Wafa Mustafa, whose father, Ali Mustafa, has been missing for over a decade.

“Who is responsible for their detention? Who tortured them? If they were killed, who killed them? Where were they buried?” Mustafa said, speaking at the gathering held at Al-Hijaz Station in Damascus.

In 2023, the United Nations established an independent body to investigate the fate of more than 130,000 people missing during the Syrian conflict.

Marah Allawi, whose son Huzaifa was detained in 2012 at the age of 18, said she saw “how they tortured young men, how they put them in cages and tortured them.”

She called on the international community to act. “I call on the whole world to know where our sons are.”