In what has been an open secret for years, the Israeli military confirmed Monday it has been operating against Hezbollah’s weapons smuggling unit in Syria to prevent Iranian arms from reaching the terror group in Leb
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One such strike hit an area at the Syria-Lebanon border on Monday night.
According to the Israeli military, Unit 4400 was established in 2000 and built numerous "strategic routes" along the Syria-Lebanon border with Iranian support.
Thousands of trucks and hundreds of planes carrying missiles and other components for Hezbollah have traveled from Iran to Syria, and later to Lebanon, in recent years, the IDF said.
The strikes against Unit 4400 during the war have included the liquidations of the head of the unit, Muhammad Ja’far Qassir, in Beirut in early October, and his replacement, Ali Hassan Gharib, in Damascus, several weeks later, alongside other top commanders.
The IDF said that it has been striking Hezbollah’s smuggling routes between Syria and Lebanon "not only in the last few months, but in a years-long effort."
Reports of Israeli strikes on Hezbollah weapons shipments began to emerge in early 2013, with Israel officially keeping mum to avoid blowback. It has increasingly opened up in recent years about the sorties, which have complemented a long-standing aerial campaign aimed at keeping Iran from gaining a foothold near Syria’s border with Israel.
The IDF says its series of strikes against Unit 4400 have "damaged the ability of the Hezbollah terror organization to strengthen its stockpile of weapons and thus to fire at the citizens of the State of Israel."
One strike in early October destroyed a 3.5-kilometer-long tunnel that crossed between Lebanon and Syria, which the IDF said was used by Hezbollah to smuggle and store Iranian weapons.
Construction work on the major tunnel began in 2009 and was completed a decade later, according to the IDF.
On Monday evening the IDF confirmed launching
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s on the Syria-Lebanon border, targeting what it says were routes used by Hezbollah to smuggle Iranian weapons.
Syria’s state news agency SANA said the strikes damaged several bridges in the al-Qusayr area and maimed two people.
Israel has carried out several airstrikes in the al-Qusayr area in recent months, targeting border crossings and other weapon smuggling routes used by Hezbollah to bring arms into Lebanon.
Israeli jets also bombed Unit 4400 command centers amid other strikes on Hezbollah in Beirut on Monday.
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