Following an Israeli strike on a military target near the border on Tuesday, the IDF dropped leaflets warning the Syrian military to stop cooperating with Hezbollah, Syrian opposition sources reported Wednesday.
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The leaflets, which were dropped on Syrian military positions, singled out Hajj Jawad Hashem, the head of Hezbollah's "Golan File" in Syria, Kan 11 News reported.
"Aiding Hajj Hashem will bring ruin upon you," the leaflet stated. "Their [Hezbollah's] evil intentions have been exposed. You are responsible for your own actions and Hezbollah is responsible for your suffering," it said.
The leaflet goes on to say that Hashem and his forces were known to be conducting visits to military sites in southern Syria, including the site hit on Tuesday, with the aim of upgrading their surveillance capabilities. Hezbollah, it continued, has turned the Syrian military into a puppet, warning that Syrian military personnel needed to take care, as their actions were being closely monitored.
At the bottom of the leaflet appears an image of an ostensible Hezbollah vehicle at the military site the IDF reportedly targeted on Tuesday.
The IDF did not comment on the report about the leaflet warning.
On Tuesday night, Syrian state media reported the IDF had struck a target near the town of Hader in the northern Quneitra Governorate. Hader lies just east of the Israeli Druze town of Majdal Shams. No casualties were reported.
The UK-based war-monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which has activists on the ground in Syria, reported that the target of the strike was a military post near Hader used by both regime forces and Iranian militias. The strike sparked a fire at the outpost, according to SOHR.
This is not the first time that Israel has dropped leaflets warning Syrian military forces operating near the border against cooperating with Hezbollah. In January, a day after Syrian state media reported Israeli airstrikes in southern Syria, a Syrian opposition website published a picture of what it claimed was one such leaflet, ostensibly dropped before the strike and addressing by name the commander of the Syrian Army's 112th Brigade, Basil Abu Eid.
Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.
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