According to this press release, the suspect, a Syrian citizen, Ali Soleiman al-Assi, lived in the south of the country. “His activities included collecting information on Israeli army troops in the border area in preparation for future terrorist activities of the network,” the army said. The man was transferred and interrogated in Israel. This operation made it possible, according to the army, “to prevent an attack and led to the revelation of the operational methods of Iranian terrorist networks located near the Golan Heights”.
Shooting against the Golan
On July 19, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) reported that “Israeli forces arrested a citizen who worked as a driver to transport milk to the capital, Damascus, in the village of al-Razatiya », in the south of the southern province of Qouneitra, bordering the Syrian Golan Heights occupied by Israel. “An Israeli military force made up of three cars and an armored vehicle crossed the border, entered the village and took the man into the occupied Syrian Golan,” added the OSDH, based in the United Kingdom and which has a vast network of sources in the country at war.
Damascus has tried to stay out of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon. But rocket fire, from groups affiliated with Lebanese Hezbollah, was reported from Syria against the part of the Golan occupied by Israel. The pro-Iranian Hezbollah also bombs northern Israel and the occupied Golan from Lebanese territory, in support of Palestinian Hamas. In late September, Israel intensified its raids against Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut and the east, after nearly a year of cross-border firefights.
