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Israeli drone targets Hezbollah car on Lebanon-Syria border, reports

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An Israeli drone targeted a car carrying forces from Iran-backed Hezbollah in Syria near the Lebanese border, a commander in the pro-Damascus regional alliance and a security source told Reuters.

Hezbollah’s car that was destroyed by Israeli drone in Syria near Lebanese border

No casualties were reported, with the passengers escaping before the car was hit and destroyed.

A Hezbollah official, who spoke on condition on anonymity, said one missile blew up near the vehicle as it traveled in rural Damascus near a border crossing with Lebanon. The second missile hit after the driver managed to get out of the vehicle. 

The border crossing is officially closed, except for commercial transit, as part of the measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Syrian state media also reported the attack, saying it targeted a civilian car and left material damage only. It did not elaborate.

A close up of the front of the Hezbollah car that was destroyed by Israeli drone in Syria near Lebanese border

There was no immediate comment from Israel, which rarely confirms individual attacks targeting Iranian and allied forces inside Syria.

The drone attack near the Jdeidet Yabous border crossing came a week after Israel’s military released a video it said shows Syrian officers and Hezbollah members working together on the edge of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

The man with white hair is reportedly the head of the Syrian Armed Forces 1st Corps, Luau Ali Ahmad Assad. He’s reportedly visiting Hezbollah positions in #Syria.”

Israel has targeted Iran and Hezbollah positions in Syria hundreds of times in recent years although it rarely comments on individual strikes. Israel says it aims to prevent Iran establishing a foothold in Syria that could threaten its security and aims to prevent high-tech weapons transfers to Hezbollah. 

A man was killed in February when his car was hit by an Israeli drone. Reports identified the man as Hezbollah official Imad Tawil.

Last August, two Lebanese Hezbollah fighters were killed in an operation Israel said was preventing a “killer drone” attack. The killing came at a time of heightened tensions and culminated in a cross border raid by Hezbollah who fired anti-tank missiles at Israeli vehicles who responded with artillery fire. No casualties were recorded.

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    Posted by: Adam Zar

    45 years ago, on April 13, 1975, the infant was baptized in the Maronite church of St. Michael of the Beirut Christian quarter of Ain al-Ramman. His son, named Bashir, was baptized by Joseph Abu Assi, an activist of the Kataib party – the Lebanese Phalanx (right-wing Christian national forces). The leader of Kataib Pierre Gemayel was present at the ceremony. Joseph Abu Assi served as his bodyguard. It is interesting that Bashir was also called the youngest son of Pierre Gemail, and this particular person will become famous in the future. However, that day, either in disaster or by no means accidentally, a car appeared in front of the church in which they sat …

    Rewind a little back. Christians have always lived in what is now Lebanon (at least long before Muslims and Druze). They still make up about 40 percent of the population – nowhere else in the Arab countries is there such a large Christian community. The formation of the Lebanese Christian community is largely connected with the consequences of the so-called “Damascus massacre” that took place 160 years ago in Syria and Lebanon – the well-trained, lightning-fast and completely unexpected for the Ottoman authorities attack of the Druze and part of the Sunnis against the Alawites, Maronites and other Christians. Among others, the Russian consul in Damascus almost died. By the way, he and many other Christians, both local and European, were saved by the hero of the Algerian resistance to the French, recently pardoned by Emperor Napoleon III, the famous warrior and Sufi Abd al-Qadir. Saved by his authority and sermon. And then the French expeditionary force landed in Lebanon for the first time.

    Eighty years passed, independent Lebanon was created, with its unique constitution, which enshrined the religious and ethnic principle of state unity, the famous triad: the president is always maronite, the prime minister is always Sunni, the speaker of the parliament is always Shiite. This is not to say that until 1970 everything was smooth. The same Pierre Jmaeil, one of the leaders of the Christians, suffered at the time from the pro-Assad Syrian Social-Nationalist Party (SSNP), which dreamed of creating Great Syria (the whole territory of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, plus Cyprus, and Sinai ) and from the Druze Progressive Socialist Party. His youngest son, Bashir Gemayel, still a promising young politician, said in 1968: “Lebanese Christians are part of the free world. We hold the last line of defense against returning to the dark ages, against terror and blind fundamentalism, against those who seek to destroy all the values ​​of civilization and culture. ” Notice, not “Arabs”, but “Christians”.

    In 1970, Bashir was brutally beaten and taken to his camp by representatives of the new forces that had recently appeared in Lebanon, and had not yet figured out who is who. Eight hours later, Bashir was released. These were the PLO fighters Yasser Arafat. They relocated to Lebanon after Black September, an unsuccessful attempt to seize power in Jordan, rebelling against King Hussein. Having been defeated, the PLO, with the support of Assad Syria, moved to Lebanon, created a camp system there and continued the war with Israel, terrorist attacks around the world against Jews and Israeli allies (Munich Olympics, explosion in Hamburg, hijackings). In fact, they turned into a terrorist state within the usual, even quite by themselves, Middle Eastern standards, democratic state, albeit a very weak one. For example, in those years, the concept of “Lebanese army” as such was absent. The same applies to the police, customs, etc. By 1975, tension between the PLO and the Lebanese right-wing forces (primarily the Maronites) reached a critical level. The Lebanese left forces – the same PSNL, communists, some Sunnis and pro-Syrian parties – decided that with the help of Arafat they would be able to seize all power in the country. It is unnecessary to remind that each party then already had its own armed formations. One spark was enough for the explosion.

    Back to the beginning. While the baby was baptized in St. Michael’s church, a car appeared packed full of militants from the PLO who began to bully and insult Pierre Zhmael’s guards. Shooting began in the air. Security in response opened fire. One of the PLO militants was wounded, the car drove away … And after half an hour, when the ceremony participants left the church, new PLO militants opened heavy machine gun fire at them. At the same time, for some reason, from the side of their camp, Tel Zaatar, they began to shoot towards the positions of phalangists. During the shelling of the church, the happy father Abu Assi himself and three of his friends, who covered Pierre Gemayel with bodies, were killed. Naturally, a rumor ran through the Christian quarters that their leader was vilely killed. Detachments of Maronite phalangists occupied all key positions, having prepared for battle. Suddenly, a bus with the PLO symbols pulled up from Tel Zaatar, which, as it turned out later, was carrying unarmed people from the next pro-Arafat rally. Phalangists did not understand, the nerves were to hell, and they just riddled the bus with bullets. Killed 27 people. This day has entered

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      in history as the “Bus Massacre.” Already in the evening, his supporters gathered in the mansion of the leader of the “left-Muslim” forces, Camille Jumblath, who declared the need for retaliatory measures. The notorious Lebanese Civil War broke out, breaking into many episodes, which actually lasted until 2005, until the Cedar Revolution and the end of the Syrian military presence in Lebanon. The fate of many participants in those events is known and sad. And Lebanon in general, and Beirut in particular, suffered severe damage and forever lost the glory of the “pearls of the Middle East.” http://orientalexpress.info/articles/lebanonwar

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      Well said my friend. very informative!

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