The Israeli military said on Sunday it had carried out a ground operation in Syria and arrested a Syrian national allegedly involved in Iranian networks. The conflict in the Middle East started after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 last year. Israel launched a massive military operation to eliminate Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. This is the first time that Israel has announced a ground operation in Syria.
However, according to the Associated Press, the Syrian government has not confirmed this development. Since October last year, Israel has carried out several airstrikes in Syria, targeting members of the Lebanon-based militia organization Hezbollah and Iranian officials. Let us tell you that Iran is a close ally of Hezbollah and Syria. But so far there has been no ground attack in Syria by Israel.
During an intelligence-driven, special IDF operation, IDF soldiers arrested an Iranian terrorist network operative in Syria named Ali Suleiman al-Asi.
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The Israeli strike in Syria comes as it continues air and ground operations to target Hezbollah’s leadership, infrastructure and financial channels in Lebanon. The Israeli army identified the captured Syrian citizen as al-Asi, but did not say when or where he was captured in Syria. “Al-Asi is a Syrian citizen who lives in the southern Syrian region of Saida,” the IDF said in a post on Twitter. We were monitoring his activities and he turned out to be a terrorist. He was working for an Iranian network and gathering classified information about Israel for future terrorist attacks.
The IDF said al-Asi was arrested in Syria and brought to Israel for questioning. The IDF uploaded a video of Al-Asi, a Syrian citizen detained on X, and captioned it, “Our ground operation prevented a future attack and exposed an Iranian terrorist network located near the Golan Heights.” How Work Works Al-Asi has been handed over to agencies for further investigation. This video footage is of al-Asi being interrogated.
