A Hezbollah commander has reportedly warned Syrian forces that the group is prepared to rotate its launchers and shell Damascus in retaliation for any Israeli-aligned Syrian action, threatening tit-for-tat attacks on civilians, journalists, and hospitals. The threat follows reports of an American proposal to deploy Syrian army forces into Lebanon to fight Hezbollah. The commander reportedly stated, 'You bomb our homes? We'll rotate launchers and bomb your homes in Damascus.'
A Hezbollah commander has issued what he described as a direct threat to Syrian forces, warning that his organization is prepared to launch rockets at Damascus in a tit-for-tat escalation. The threat, reported by Israeli analyst Chananel Aviv, comes amid reports that the United States has proposed deploying Syrian army forces loyal to Ahmed al-Sharaa ('Jolani') into Lebanon to combat Hezbollah. The commander is quoted as saying, 'The forces on the Syria-Lebanon border want to open a 'support front for Israel.' They dismantled their own mines — and whoever dismantles mines intends to invade.' He added, 'You bomb our homes? We'll rotate launchers and bomb your homes in Damascus.' The commander further threatened a policy of asymmetric retaliation — targeting journalists for journalists, hospitals for hospitals, and civilians for civilians — while explicitly rejecting the idea that Syrian lives are worth less than Lebanese ones. The threat has not been independently verified and remains a unilateral statement attributed to a Hezbollah field commander. The Zioneer has previously reported on analyst assessments that Hezbollah, emboldened by Iranian direction and the emerging US-Iran understandings, is seeking to breach the deterrence equation with Israel and its allies.
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