Syria: the largest IDF operation since Entebbe

First Document: Sheldag Operation in Iranian Installation in Syria

After the operation « Many Roads » of September in Masyaf in Syria was cleared for release yesterday, the IDF spokesperson today reveals documentation of special forces inside the underground complex, the advanced weapons the Iranians produced there and their destruction.

Operation « Many Ways »: The Israeli army confirmed yesterday (Wednesday) for the first time that on September 8, 2024, during a special Air Force operation, forces of the Sheldag unit attacked and destroyed an underground site production of precision missiles in the Masyaf region, in the heart of Syrian territory, the operation was reported in real time. According to Arab reports, its details were allowed to be published on the last day. Today (Thursday), the IDF reveals numerous documents. the operation is dramatic.

According to the new details that have been able to be published, it appears that around a hundred fighters landed in the area using helicopters, accompanied by fire shells and a collection of planes, fighter planes and naval ships. The target of the raid was an underground site deep in Syria, built with Iranian funding and support.

The Israeli military says the site was a flagship Iranian project aimed at arming its allies on the northern border of the State of Israel. The complex included advanced production lines designed to produce precision missiles and long-range rockets, significantly increasing production. scope of supplying missiles to the terrorist organization Hezbollah and other Iranian militias in space.

The forces, underlines the Israeli army, reached during the operation critical machines for the production process of precision missiles, including a planetary mixer, numerous weapons and intelligence documents, which were transferred for investigation . The fighters destroyed the compound and returned to the compound. territory of the country in complete safety.

Photo: IDF spokesperson

Operation in several ways (Photo: IDF spokesperson) Photo: IDF spokesperson

It was the only surface-to-surface missile production site in Syria, expected to supply hundreds of missiles to Hezbollah each year. It is buried deep in the ground, at least 70 meters deep on the mountainside. Its construction took about four years and the shipping of the machines took about three years. A month before the operation, the Iranians began experimental production on the site and the IDF understood that this was the opportunity to attack it provided that the place was secured by only a few dozen security guards and not more.

70 aircraft took part in the operation – combat aircraft, transport aircraft, helicopters and drones. Around 50 bombs were dropped on the targets and 669 were deployed on the ground, including drone assistance. attacked the agitators, they planted the bomb in Lebanon and at the end of the operation the place exploded with more than a ton of explosives “We felt an earthquake A small land, we saw the explosion with our eyes”said one of the commanders.

Around thirty members of the security forces were killed during the operation and a few others tried to overcome it. Reinforcements from Assad’s Syrian army arrived on the scene only after the IDF forces had left.

The military now says the intelligence division has been continuously collecting and monitoring intelligence for years, which has clarified the importance of the target and the operational value of the operation. In the months leading up to the operation, a plan was put in place to destroy it with the help of the Air Force.

Upon the helicopters’ arrival in Israel, Air Force Commander Major General Tomer Bar said: “In this justified war there was an essential event for the existence of the country, now that in a moment we are safe on the ground with the mission accomplished – we can be proud, we can tell future generations that we have accomplished an important act for the security of Israel”

In Israel, it is said that the ability to strike the facility from the air was limited and so a ground operation had been prepared. Alongside the landed fighter operations, the Air Force attacked numerous targets in Syria. The warriors encountered virtually no resistance. For several hours they worked on the facility, hardened the place and destroyed it.

It was also the first swallow after what we saw recently in Syria, when the Assad regime collapsed and Israel took the opportunity to massively destroy the formations and capabilities of the Syrian army as well as the strategic weapons that were stationed in Syria and could pose a future threat. to the State of Israel. The soldiers of the Sheldag unit also operated in this context in the Syrian Hermon and occupied strategic positions there that the Syrian army had abandoned.

Operation in several ways (Photo: IDF spokesperson) Photo: IDF spokesperson

For years, the Intelligence Directorate conducted extensive intelligence gathering and extensive surveillance, confirming the value of the target. In the months leading up to the operation, a plan was launched for the Israeli Air Force to destroy it.

The Israeli military will continue to act strategically and professionally with various methods and tactics to eliminate threats directed against the citizens of Israel.

In recent years and until a few months ago, Syria was “a very comfortable situation for the Iranian regime”Shoshani said.

Looking ahead, he said, despite the fall of the pro-Iranian Assad regime, “we are already ensuring that they [les Iraniens] do not return to Syria and that the roads between Syria and Lebanon remain ineffective.”

This vigilance, he said, is based on the understanding that Iran “will look for new ways to challenge ourselves in the future.”