Alma Center
“Right now, Hezbollah is in survival mode. It doesn’t mean that they are not prepared for confrontation,” expert tells JNS.
With the help of Iran and North Korea, the terrorist organization has been working for 18 years on attack, strategic and booby-trapped tunnels.
The Lebanese terror group is the strongest Iranian proxy in the Middle East.
Iran is working to seize control of an extensive network of Syrian military industry facilities.
Since the deadly earthquake in Turkey on Feb. 6, the Iranians have sent more than 1,000 “humanitarian aid” convoys into Syria, says the director of an Israeli defense research center.
Masyaf is a well-known “trouble spot” that contains the 4000 Institute, where experts from Iran, North Korea and Syria develop precision missiles for Hezbollah, says the Alma Center.
Russian-Iranian competition in Syria appears to be a thing of the past, and a new Iranian-Hezbollah attempt at entrenchment in southern Syria may have already begun.
“The missiles did not constitute a threat on [Israeli Air Force] planes and there was no lock by the battery’s radar on the planes, but this is a dramatic precedent,” according to SANA.
The strikes reportedly targeted weapons depots and “Iranian sites,” in an area known to house facilities associated with Hezbollah’s precision-missile project.
Despite sharing an interest in limiting Iran’s entrenchment in Syria, Russia has developed ways to express displeasure to Israel that include allowing weapons transfers, according to a new report.
The Alma Center said Russia has a range of ways to transmit messages of displeasure to Jerusalem over Israel’s “gray zone” campaign against Iranian targets, despite sharing an overall interest in Syria.
“Even now, Hezbollah’s Golan File Unit gathers intelligence and awaits an opportunity to attack Israel,” says a report by the Alma Research and Education Center.