The Israel Defense Forces has exposed a Syrian military officer who is assisting Hezbollah in the Golan Heights, the IDF reported Thursday.
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Posting on Twitter, the IDF's Arabic-language Spokesperson Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee said Naqib Bashar al-Hussein, a commanding officer in charge of reconnaissance, "serves as the main liaison between Hezbollah's southern headquarters and the 1st Division of the Syrian [Arab] Army."
According to Adraee, Al-Hussein accompanies various Hezbollah members, and even overlooks the maintenance and repair of Hezbollah's observation posts, and sometimes, even posts belonging to Iran. In one of the photos posted on Twitter, he can be seen on the border next to Hezbollah commander Jawad Hashem, observing Israeli troops.
The post also reported that Al-Hussein operated inside the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria, which according to the 1974 ceasefire agreement reached after the Yom Kippur War, is off-limits for Syrian troops.
Adraee warned that the IDF was "monitoring the developments on the other side of the border and anyone who tries to harm the security of Israel and its citizens," stressing that Syria was "responsible for all activities carried out from its territory against the State of Israel."
#عاجل كشف النقاب عن النقيب بشار الحسين، نقيب في #الجيش_السوري وقائد سرية الاستطلاع في اللواء 90، من سكان حي عكرمة الواقع في #حمص، والذي يعد بمثابة خلية صلة الوصل بين قيادة الجنوب التابعة لحزب الله والفيلق الأول للجيش السوري pic.twitter.com/fLn7lhEQ4D
— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) November 25, 2021
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