The Israeli army announced on Sunday that it had captured “in recent months” a Syrian, member of an “Iranian terrorist network”.
According to the IDF, this operation made it possible to thwart planned attacks.
Israel continues to neutralize individuals potentially capable of harming it. “During a special intelligence operation on Syrian territory that took place in recent months, soldiers […] arrested a member of an Iranian terrorist network in Syria”the IDF said in a statement, without mentioning the date or location of his capture. 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”it is specified.
The interrogation of this man allowed, 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”.
On July 19, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) announced that “Israeli forces arrested a citizen who worked as a driver transporting 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 consisting of three cars and an armored vehicle crossed the border, entered the village and took the man into the occupied Syrian Golan”it was further detailed.
This affair occurs in a context of continued rise in tensions between Israel and Iran. In recent weeks, each of these two countries has also carried out strikes on the territory of the other.
