Israel confirms that it has attacked Damascus and assures that the Hezbollah headquarters was the target

The Israeli Army confirmed on Monday that it had launched an attack in the Damascus region of the Syrian capital and confirmed that the target was the intelligence headquarters of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah.

Syria had hours earlier accused Israel of a series of bombs against the outskirts of Damascus, which were attacked on several occasions in recent months by Israeli forces.

According to the Israeli military statement, “Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters operates a branch in Syria, which includes an intelligence collection and evaluation system.”

The Army adds that this attack is in addition to those carried out in Lebanon, where massive bombings began at the end of September and a ground attack on October 1, “to damage the intelligence capabilities” of the Lebanese party-militia.

He also claims that his forces, previously, killed in Beirut the head of Hezbollah’s intelligence services branch in Syria, identified as Mahmoud Mohamed Shahin, as well as the group’s intelligence chief, Hasan Ali al Zaima.

Syria’s official news agency SANA said the attack hit “several civilian sites south of Damascus, causing some material damage,” without providing further details.

For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Israel carried out three bombings against the area, while confirming that one of the attacks targeted the area around Sayida Zeinab.

In that area, with a Shiite majority, there is the presence of different armed groups, according to the NGO based in the United Kingdom and a wide network of colleagues on the ground, and in the case of Hezbollah, Israel had already dealt with it several times. blowing within Syria, but intensified since the beginning of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023.

At least five people were killed last Thursday in an attack by Israel against weapons warehouses and suspected Hezbollah command centers in the town of Al Quseir, in western Syria and near the border with Lebanon.

These bombs are often directed against the targets of Hezbollah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and other militias close to Tehran present in Syria and allies of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, but civilians can also die in them .

With information from EFE