"And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness, the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief. "

Khalil Gibran (How I Became a Madman)

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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Israeli strike in Syria kills 2 Hezbollah-linked operatives - Naharnet

 A war monitor said an Israeli strike Thursday in the Syrian-controlled Golan Heights killed two people working with Lebanon's Hezbollah, days after major raids elsewhere in the country.

Syria's official news agency SANA reported that "two citizens were martyred due to an Israeli drone attack that targeted a civilian vehicle with a missile" on the Damascus-Quneitra road, in Quneitra province.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said those killed were an operative who "worked with Lebanon's Hezbollah and was responsible for recruiting Syrians in the area... and transporting weapons."

His "assistant" was also killed, added the Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria.

A local security source told AFP that "two charred bodies were removed" from the targeted vehicle.

The Israeli army has yet to comment on the strike.

Israel seized much of the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967 and later annexed it in a move largely unrecognized by the international community.

Thursday's strike came days after raids blamed on Israel killed 18 people in the central province of Hama, according to Syrian authorities.

The Observatory said those strikes killed 27 people, including six civilians, and targeted a "scientific research area" and other sites in the province's Masyaf area.

https://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/307951