Liberation newspaper said that the war between Israel and…Hezbollah It led to the Syrian regime forces and their Russian allies doubling their strikes against the opposition’s fortified stronghold in Idlib, and opposition talk has also doubled over the past two weeks about the upcoming attack on Aleppo city.
The newspaper explained – in a report written by Luc Mathieu – that the fire was caused by Israel's assassination of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah He now arrives in Aleppo in northern Syria, where Syrian rebels confirm that they are ready to launch an attack on the city, and sends a regime Bashar al-Assad Reinforcements to the region. Finally, Türkiye moves its forces and sometimes strikes regime positions. Researcher Felix Le Grand says, “Everyone is trying to take advantage of the chaos to push their pawns.”
The newspaper reported that anti-Israel revolutionaries celebrated Israel's undermining of Hezbollah, and celebrants went out in Idlib Governorate with a distribution of… Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham Sweets and pastries in the days following the assassination of Nasrallah, the main supporter of Bashar al-Assad’s regime since 2012.
In the last two weeks, the media affiliated with Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham has doubled its announcements from Ankara about the upcoming attack on Aleppo, and its leader has met with Muhammad Al-Julani Several brigade commanders in the Syrian National Army were identified on the Turkish border, although a concentration of tanks and heavy weapons had not yet appeared.
Analyst Charles Lister of Syria Weekly says, “Despite all the noise raised about the plans of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and the opposition, little, if anything, has been revealed, indicating that the armed opposition is actually preparing for large-scale hostilities.”
Indeed, the Syrian regime and its Russian ally have begun relaunching hostilities in the region, and over the past three weeks, their planes, artillery, and drones have bombed northwestern Syria at a rate not seen for several months, as the writer says.
The Deputy United Nations Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in Syria witnessed 3 Russian raids during his visit to Idlib, and said, “In conflict areas such as northwest Syria, the right to food has become a luxury.”
On October 15, a power station was destroyed in the west of the governorate, and on the same day, an artillery bombardment by the Syrian regime on the town of Atarib led to the death of one person and the injury of 8 others – including two children and two women – according to the Civil Defense, and Bashar al-Assad’s army also transferred about 1,200 soldiers from the center of the country. To the front line west of Aleppo.
Strange statement
As for Turkey (which has great influence in northern Syria), it did more than just monitor the escalation, and many of its generals inspected the front lines in Afrin, and in recent days, Turkish artillery fire killed many Syrian soldiers in the Idlib and Aleppo regions.
On October 1, the Turkish President made a statement Recep Tayyip Erdogan He made a strange statement before Parliament, saying, “After Lebanon, the next place that Israel’s eyes will turn to – and I say it very clearly – is our homeland. Anatolia is part of our dreams.” Netanyahu“, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The newspaper asked: Does this mean that Erdogan is preparing for a fortification operation in northern Syria? Will Ankara seek, after years, to establish a wide “safe zone” extending 30 kilometers along the border with Syria? It concluded that this announcement had been interpreted as a justification for an upcoming attack on Aleppo.