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Netanyahu and Assad are two sides of the same coin.”
During the funeral, Ahmad al-Masalmeh carried a banner that read in English, Arabic and Hebrew Today marks the spark of the revolution that began in Daraa against Bashar Assad,
We are civilians living here. The children were scared and the building was damaged,
The ongoing Israeli aggression on Syria is not only a violation of international law, but is also a direct threat to regional and international security,
So far, Hezbollah is keen not to respond and to leave the decision to the government and the Lebanese army,
said Qassem Kassir, a Lebanese analyst close to Hezbollah The IDF (military) is currently striking military targets in southern Syria, including command centres and military sites containing weapons and military vehicles belonging to the old Syrian regime,
The presence of military assets in southern Syria poses a threat to the State of Israel,
This is a strategy of Israel [to] really reduce the country’s military capacity, particularly its defence capacity, and now Israel is going further, saying well it doesn’t want any military presence in the south of Syria,
Of course, for the government in Damascus [this] is a huge, huge challenge, so practically, that means they’re not in control of the southern cities of Syria,
What is happening on the eastern and northeastern border cannot continue, and we will not accept its continuation. I have instructed the Lebanese army to respond to the sources of fire."
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun addressed the escalating violence, saying Hezbollah is trying to take advantage of the new government’s weakness in Syria, but the group itself is in a precarious position. It has suffered major setbacks from Israeli strikes, the fall of Assad, and now new adversaries in Syria,
Javed Ali, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy and former senior director at the National Security Council, told Fox News Digital Hezbollah is facing a confluence of threats unlike any time in its history,
The U.S. is navigating a complex landscape in Syria, and while it does not officially recognize HTS, there are strategic interests in seeing Hezbollah and Iranian influence further weakened,
Officials must take immediate action to protect the safety of the nation and its citizens,
Contacts continue between the army command and the Syrian authorities to maintain security and stability in the border area,
A group from the Hezbollah militia kidnapped three members of the Syrian army on the Syrian-Lebanese border before taking them to Lebanese territory and eliminating them,
the news agency SANA quoted the defense ministry as saying A number of rockets, fired from the Qusayr countryside inside Syrian territory, fell on the border town of Qasr,
it said, without providing further details The defense ministry will take all the necessary measures after this dangerous escalation from the Hezbollah militia,
The claim that it was an errant bullet from the funeral of a Hezbollah terrorist in a nearby village [in Southern Lebanon] is completely unacceptable,
said Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, according to Hebrew-language media The IDF will strike armed terrorists in Southern Lebanon and will operate in order to remove any threat to the State of Israel,