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| Israeli commander says IDF operations to continue against Iran, Hezbollah in Syria |
| 2018-12-24 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] The Chief of Staff for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Gadi Eizenkot, said on Sunday that Israel would continue their operations against Hezbollah and Iran inside Syria, I24News reported. Referring to the U.S. withdrawal from Syria, Eizenkot said that this will not have much of an affect on their operations, adding that this has been blown out of proportionate. Eizenkot said that much of the Israeli campaign against Iran and Hezbollah has been quietly carried out by their forces. "The [Israeli] campaign against Iran and Hezbollah is largely hidden from the public eye," he said. "Israel is operating and will continue to operate against Iranian entrenchment in Syria," the outgoing Israeli army head said. "Iran’s efforts to establish a military infrastructure in Syria have been the IDF’s top concern for the past four years." "Iran’s vision was to build a force of about 100,000 fighters with integrated land, sea, and intelligence capabilities and to build a line of outposts in the Golan Heights," Eizenkot said. Israel "has worked continuously and has thwarted Iran’s efforts, in an entirely independent Israeli operation against a whole gamut of actors." |
| Posted by:Fred |