Illustrative image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that its troops captured a cell of operatives operating on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), during a raid in southern Syria over the night of July 6 and 7, marking the second such announcement within a few days.
Reservists of the Alexandroni Brigade and field interrogators of the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 operated overnight close to the town of Kwdana in the al-Quneitra governorate to detain the cell, the military said in a statement. Several members of the cell who the IDF said were operating on behalf of the IRGC were nabbed during the raid.
On July 2, several other IRGC-affiliated operatives were captured during a similar raid in south Syria, according to the military.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least six people, including two minors, were arrested by the IDF during recent raids in al-Quneitra.
The IDF took over the buffer zone adjacent to the occupied Golan Heights just hours after the fall of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad on December 8. It has since established nine strategic posts there. Most of the recent raids were launched from these posts.
Syria’s Islamist-led government has not addressed the Israeli raids reported in the last few days. The raids came amid reports of progress in talks between Israel and Syria.
A peace deal is said to be within reach with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa agreeing to give the country’s claim to the occupied Golan Heights, or at least two third of the region. However, the country appears to be keen on regaining control over the buffer zone.
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