Report: Israel may invade Syria and Bekaa in bid to corner Hezbollah in South

The Israeli army might invade parts of Syria and Lebanon’s Bekaa in any upcoming war against Hezbollah, a media report said.

Quoting “various sources concerned with the developments in our region,” the pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar daily reported Wednesday that the Israeli army “has been deliberately sending signals that it might be obliged at the start of any military operation to sever the routes of any ground supplies that Hezbollah might need from Syria or Iraq.”

“It will also seek to sever the routes linking the Bekaa to the South,” the daily added.

“To achieve that, it is planning a ground military operation during which it would enter Syria’s south and southwest before advancing east towards Lebanon’s depth in order to sever the routes between the Bekaa and the South,” the newspaper said, quoting its sources.

“The enemy is also seeking to exploit any advance inside Syrian territory to deal a major military blow to the Syrian army, which would paralyze its abilities to help Hezbollah on the one side, and would encourage the Syrian opposition forces in the south and the north to resume their battles against the regime in several regions,” the sources added.

The sources also claimed that “well-known” members of an anti-Hezbollah Lebanese party have met in Germany, Turkey and other countries with members of the Syrian opposition to “ask about the stance of the displaced Syrians should war erupt.”

“The Lebanese political party tasked a senior official known for his special ties to U.S. intelligence agencies to carry out this communication,” the sources added, noting that the alleged official had spent a long time of his life in the United States.