‘Syrian Updates’ from Newsrael

Hezbollah crew in Syria handed over their weapons to IDF fighters

A few days after the fall of the Assad regime to the rebels, Syrians who were recruited to the Hezbollah terrorist organization and live in southern Syria in the village of Khadr, located near Mount Hermon, handed over their weapons to IDF fighters

Syrians living in the Mount Hermon region, who were recruited to the Hezbollah terrorist organization recently handed over their weapons to IDF fighters. This was reported today (Thursday) by the “Syrian Television” channel, headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.

As a reminder, a few hours after the fall of the Assad regime, IDF fighters entered the buffer zone in Syrian territory, in order to improve defensive positions, after Syria fell to the rebels.

The Air Force also launched a large-scale offensive operation, in which hundreds of targets were attacked in order to prevent strategic weapons from falling into the hands of the rebels.

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) demand that Palestinians in Syria surrender arms

Reports saying that HTS has demanded Palestinians close their military bases and surrender all arms.

Writing in Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper, Ibrahim Al-Amin says that HTS informed Palestinian factions present in Syria they can no longer have weapons or training camps in Syria. He says the new powers in Syria are heading towards “neutrality” in the conflict with Israel.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain, research fellow at the FDD reports on his X account:

Palestinian report says Syria new rulers (HTS) met with all Palestinian militia chiefs in Damascus, and instructed them to surrender their bases outside the refugee camps and to maintain personal weapons in their offices inside the camps, for now and until a legislation decides what to do with them.

Report says Sharaa (formerly Jolani) is disarming pro-Assad factions only, and that a Hamas representative did not attend the meeting.

Except for Hamas, all Palestinians supported Assad all along.

Hamas had a fallout with Assad when it helped rebels in Homs, in 2014, but Hamas later came back begging Assad for reconciliation. Not sure whether Jolani will see Hamas as fellow Islamists (or as fellow protégé of Qatar and Turkey) or as friends of Assad.

Not sure either whether Jolani wants to disarm all militias, or only those he believes were allied with Assad.

Israel destroyed Assad Electronic Warfare sites

The Air Force destroyed about 20 sites of the Assad army’s “Electronic Warfare Corps” last night.

Israel destroyed Assad Electronic Warfare sites

The Air Force destroyed about 20 sites of the Assad army’s “Electronic Warfare Corps” last night.

Demonstrations in Damascus AGAINST HTS leader

Are we seeing the first instance of extremist powers doing their best to bring chaos back to Syria?

Demonstrations in Umayyad Square in Damascus against the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham al-Jolani, nicknamed a pig, and demanding that he and his forces leave the city.

We have been warning the West not to rush to put all of their cards on the HTS in general, and its leader Joulani in particular.

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