HEZBOLLAH REDEPLOYS ITS FIGHTERS FROM SYRIA TO LEBANON

Sun 20 October 2024:

Hezbollah has started reducing its presence in Syria by importing some of its fighters into Lebanon, in an apparent demand for reinforcements amid Israel’s ongoing invasion of Lebanon.

According to Turkiye’s Anadolu Agency, which cited unnamed local Syrian sources, Hezbollah is moving hundreds of its fighters to Lebanon from areas in Syria such as Mayadin and Al-Bukamal in the eastern Deir el-Zour, as well as from parts of Damascus, Hama, and Homs provinces.

Over the past decade, Hezbollah has increased and maintained its presence in Syria after entering the ongoing civil war which erupted in the country back in 2011. Throughout that conflict, the Iran-backed Shia group’s fighters have fought on the side of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his regime – a period for which Hezbollah has been criticised for due to the numerous atrocities committed by its fighters against Syria’s largely Sunni population.

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As the war largely subsided in Syria over the past five years amid the Assad regime’s recapturing of most of its territories – following the additional military intervention of Iran and Russia – Hezbollah has spent much of its time and resources in the country carrying out Shia religious proselytisation efforts, particularly in the southern and eastern provinces, in what critics branded the ‘Iranian project’ in Syria.

Now, as Israel radically has escalated its bombardment and invasion of Lebanon over the past month, with the stated goal of defeating and eradicating Hezbollah, the group’s fighters are reportedly being called in their hundreds to defend their position in Lebanon.

Their redeployment follows on from the reported journey other Iran-backed fighters have made to Lebanon from Iraq, with the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) also aiming to reinforce Hezbollah’s numbers against the Israeli invasion.

The Hezbollah and PMF fighters have reportedly been forced to use alternate routes from Syria into Lebanon, however, after Israel targeted the Al-Masnaa border crossing in recent weeks in an attempt to cut off the territorial link between the two countries.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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