Spotlight on Terrorism: Hezbollah, Lebanon and Syria (September 9 – 16 , 2024)

  • This past week Hezbollah claimed responsibility for 65 attacks on military and civilian targets in Israel, including towns and villages which were attacked for the first time since the beginning of hostilities on October 8, 2023. Three IDF soldiers were injured, one of them in the reserves, and property damage was reported. The military wings Hamas and al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya also claimed responsibility for attacks on Israeli territory.
  • Israeli Air Force aircrafts attacked Hezbollah terrorist targets and operatives in south Lebanon and the Lebanon Valley. Hezbollah announced that six of its operatives were killed during the past week.
  • The situation in south Lebanon: According to the UN, more than 113,000 people have been displaced from their homes and 589 have been killed since the beginning of the fighting. The Lebanese media published figures for aid worth tens of millions of dollars given by Hezbollah to the families who remained in their homes in south Lebanon and to the displaced families.
  • Hezbollah continued to promote the false claims that its retaliation for the elimination of Fuad Shakr killed more than 20 people at an IDF base, and linked “the killing” to the resignation of the commander of Unit 8200.
  • The EU foreign minister visited Lebanon and met with senior government officials who stated that they did not want a war.
  • Syria: A terrorist operative in the Hezbollah organization in the Golan Heights was killed in an Israeli attack. Syria and Iran denied reports that Israeli special forces raided a military facility for the production of weapons in Masyaf in western Syria.

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