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The Israeli military ensures that it has captured an “Iranian terrorist cell” in Syria

The Israeli military mentioned Wednesday that it has dismantled an “Iranian terrorist cell” in southern Syria throughout an operation in the course of the night time that resulted within the seize of an indeterminate variety of “terrorists.”

“In the light of the intelligence information received in recent weeks as a result of investigations, the Armed Forces carried out a concentrated night operation that resulted in the capture of several terrorists,” reviews the spokesman for the Israeli military within the Arab language, Avichay Adraee.

The arrests occurred in southern Syria, the place Israel since 1967 occupies the Golán highs and the place it has intensified its operations for the reason that fall of the Bashar al Asad regime final December. During the operation, the Israeli troops additionally requisitioned “combat equipment, including weapons and hand grenades” within the space the place they arrested the alleged terrorists, Adraee defined.

“The Armed Forces continue their efforts to prevent the establishment of any terrorist group in Syria and protect the citizens of Israel, especially the residents of the Golán Altos,” provides the army spokesman in Arabic.

The Chief of the Israeli military, Eyal Zamir, visited the realm yesterday and spoke with the troopers deployed in Syria, who mentioned that the neighboring nation is “in a state of exchange”, so they need to function via the border to defend “in the best possible way” the “key positions” that Israel maintains.

“We will attack where necessary before any real or emerging danger,” Zamir mentioned after making certain that the purpose highs are for Israel “an advanced defense zone”, the place “proactive operations to prevent threats.”

He additionally added that the military is attacking “all the components of the axis that Iran has built” in opposition to Israel. “Now we have acted strongly against the head of that axis: the Iranian regime and the revolutionary guard,” he mentioned.

Israel launched an assault on army amenities and the Iranian nuclear program on June 13, which led to an armed confrontation between the 2 nations that ended after twelve days of bombing when the US president, Donald Trump, introduced a excessive hearth. (EFE)