Israel's security establishment assesses that two armed terrorists eliminated by the IDF on Friday night in southern Syria were likely dispatched by Iran or its Quds Force, according to Kan News. The gunmen were killed roughly one kilometer from the Israeli border, near the village of Khader, while attempting to reach an Israeli position or community in the Golan Heights to carry out an attack. Their identities remain unknown, but their origin in an area of Iranian-backed Shiite militia activity led to the assessment.
On Monday evening, the security establishment assessed that the two armed terrorists eliminated by the IDF near the village of Khader in southern Syria on Friday night were likely dispatched by Iran or its Quds Force, according to a report by Itay Blumenthal on Kan News. The assessment ties the Friday night incident — in which the gunmen were killed approximately one kilometer from the Israeli border while attempting to reach an IDF position or an Israeli community in the Golan Heights — to Iranian direction, based on the area's known Iranian-backed Shiite militia activity. The IDF confirmed on Sunday at 07:31 Jerusalem that it had eliminated several armed terrorists in the security zone in southern Syria, initially reporting the two men near Khader and noting that the broader operation involved Etzioni Brigade forces under Division 210. By later Sunday, the military stated that the terrorists were believed to be members of a local terror group, with their bodies in IDF custody and identity investigations ongoing. The new assessment from Monday evening elevates the attribution from a local cell to a likely state-directed Iranian operation, though no group has claimed responsibility and the identities remain unknown. As The Zioneer reported on Sunday, the elimination was part of an ongoing effort by Division 210 to maintain the security buffer in southern Syria, amid broader Iranian attempts to destabilize the region through proxies in Judea and Samaria, Lebanon, and Syria, according to security officials cited by Kan News. The Quds Force link remains an assessment, not a confirmed attribution, and the specific planning or command chain has not been disclosed.
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