Eyeing showdown with Hezbollah, Israel presses shadow campaign in Syria

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Amman: Israel has intensified covert strikes in Syria against weapons sites, supply routes and Iranian-linked commanders, seven regional officials and diplomats said, ahead of a threatened full-scale assault on Tehrans key ally Hezbollah in Lebanon...

In May, an air strike hit a convoy of trucks headed to Lebanon carrying missile parts and another raid killed Hezbollah operatives, four said.. Israel has for years struck militant groups backed by arch-foe Iran in Syria and elsewhere, in a low-level campaign that burst into open confrontation after Israel and Palestinian group Hamas another Iranian ally went to war in Gaza on Oct. 7...

Some weapons parts are smuggled into Syria while others are assembled there, the three Syrian officials said.. Israels Syria campaign aims to make sure Hezbollah, Irans most loyal ally and the linchpin of Tehrans projection of regional power through militant proxies, is as weak as possible before any kind of fight begins, the Syrian officials and Israeli official said...

The June 2 killing of Saeed Abyar, described by Iranian state media as an IRGC adviser, showed Israels reach in taking out key personnel and targeting equipment even when Iran has tried new methods of protecting weapons and parts bound for Hezbollah, the Syrian officials said, including moving the manufacture of weapons to more hidden or fortified locations...

Before the Iran consulate attack, a series of air strikes in late March around Aleppo hit warehouses storing high explosives for missile warheads, the officer said.. Other attacks have targeted Syrian air defence systems that had in recent years given Hezbollah and Iranian military personnel some security to operate, including Russian-made Pantsir air defence systems, mobile missile launchers that the Syrian military uses, a Syrian military official said..

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