The footprints of the “Zionist criminal gang” in the “Majdal Shams” incident
Mehr News, International Group: During more than 9 months that have passed since the Al-Aqsa storm operation and the all-out attacks of the Zionist regime on Gaza, the situation in southern Lebanon and northern occupied territories has been repeatedly The level of full-scale war has progressed. The latest field development in this region is the attack on Majdal Shams region on July 27, 2024. 12 people were killed and at least 29 were injured in this attack on the children’s playground. From the beginning, the Zionist regime claimed that this attack was carried out by Hezbollah. But in a statement, Hezbollah categorically denied any involvement in carrying out such an attack.
The importance of Magdal Shams and the occupied Syrian Golan
After the beginning of the Al-Aqsa storm in October 2023, followed by the all-out attacks of the Zionist regime on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the situation in the north of the occupied territories with the southern borders of Lebanon and Also, the occupied Golan has progressed to full-scale war many times. The Golan Heights is a region that the Zionist regime captured from Syria in 1967 during the Six Day War and annexed it to its occupied lands in 1981. In this area, which is considered an occupied territory based on international laws and UN Security Council resolutions, most of the residents are Syrians, and they have even rejected the offer of Israeli citizenship. The occupied Syrian Golan has more than 40,000 people, most of whom are Druze Christians. In this area, there are four villages of Majdal Shams, Baqatha, Ain Qanya and Mosadoh are important.
During the recent years, the occupiers have made great efforts to dominate these areas and make them Jewish.
In the meantime, Majdal Shams is a mainly Druze city in this region, which is also unofficially considered the center of this region. Since 1967, the Zionist regime has been in control of Majdal Shams, although the international community considers it within the borders of Syria. After October 7, 2023, the Zionists are extremely worried about the presence of the resistance axis in this region, and this caused them to multiply their control and military security facilities in this region. This region has a direct impact on the security of the Zionist regime due to its population, underground resources and the location of Souq al-Jishi in the military and economic spheres. In such a way that ignoring it increases the threat to the security of the Zionist regime. Among other things, the high situation of this area causes the superiority of the military forces of one side over the other side, and in a way, it is also considered a direct threat against Tel Aviv.
Reactions to the attack on Majdal Shams
The Majdal Shams incident provoked various reactions among the Zionist authorities and other regional parties. From the beginning of this incident, the Zionist regime accused Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari stated in the first interview with Zionist officials that “this missile attack is the deadliest attack on Israeli civilians since October 7th and we will prepare to respond to Hezbollah.” Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of this regime, who was in America at the time of the attack, announced that he would fly to Israel early to hold a meeting with members of the security cabinet. Netanyahu also said: Hezbollah will pay a heavy price for the rocket attack that killed children in Majdal Shams. Western governments, including the United States, France, and England, also cited information provided by the Zionist regime and blamed Hezbollah for this attack.
On the other hand, Hezbollah announced that it denied the media claims of the occupation regime about the missile attack on Majdal Al-Shams and It emphasizes that the Islamic resistance of Lebanon has nothing to do with this attack and denies it. Also, some people of Majdal Shams area and the people of Jabal Sheikh area, who are among the Druze of Golan They stated that the deviation of the Iron Dome missile was the cause of the explosion. The Zionist website Yisrael Hum also revealed, quoting its sources, that preliminary research shows that Israel’s air defense system has encountered errors and problems in intercepting missiles fired in the Golan region. In the meantime, the remarkable thing was the lack of serious reaction of the governments of the region to this incident. In fact, the only serious reaction came from Iran, and the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Iran’s ambassador considered this incident to be an extension of the scope of the war by the occupying regime.
Israel’s footprint in the attack on Majdal Shams
Despite the Zionist regime’s accusations against Hezbollah and Lebanon’s threat of full-scale war, we can point out reasons that It shows the traces of the Zionist regime in these attacks.
1. The black record of the Zionist regime in killing civilians
It is better to evaluate about Majdal Shams incident to compare the approach of the Zionist regime towards civilians. During the past 9 months since the start of the war in Gaza, the Zionist regime has martyred a population of nearly 40 thousand civilians, most of whom are women and children. Philip Lazzarini, the Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), considered the current war in Gaza as a war against children and their future and said: As a result of the Israeli attacks on Gaza more than 12 thousand children died. The Zionists also targeted the civilians in Yemen’s Hodeida port in response to Yemen’s operations in Tel Aviv. Therefore, the Zionists did not hesitate to kill civilians in Majdal Shams.
2. Bringing Hezbollah to full-scale war Carat
As it can be seen in Netanyahu’s words, he has threatened Hezbollah with an answer that he has not received so far. Since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa storm operation, Hezbollah has opened a new front from the north to the occupied territories, and a large part of the operational power of the occupying regime has been spent in this area. In addition, due to the economic problems in the north, the Zionist regime has made a lot of efforts in the last two months to engage Hezbollah in a full-scale war, which is met with a symmetrical and logical response from Hezbollah every time.
3. Converging the heights of Golan
Generally, homogenization policy is one of the main approaches of the Zionist regime in dealing with the native population in the occupied Golan region. In December 2021, the Zionist Ha’aretz newspaper quoted Naftali Bint, the then Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, as the fundamental goal of this regime in the occupied Syrian Golan. During the last decade, the policy of Judaization in this region has been met with people’s resistance every time. It seems that Tel Aviv intends to use this event as an impetus to achieve its goal. Some people believe that creating a gap between the resistance and the Druze tribe in Lebanon, Palestine and Syria and inciting them against the resistance can pave the way to achieve the goals of the Zionists while creating tension in this region.
4. Escape from domestic and international problems
Netanyahu and his government have been under the most severe political attacks from the domestic opposition in recent months. In the last two years, the Zionist regime has gone through several unsuccessful parliamentary elections, and especially after the Al-Aqsa storm, the economic and demographic problems and reverse migration from this region have increased, and the Netanyahu government has also failed to release prisoners. In such a situation, it seems that the attack on Majdal Shams, as an area that is occupied by the Zionists, but whose people do not consider themselves Israelis, can turn the eyes away from the many internal inefficiencies as well as the continuous crimes committed in the Gaza Strip. /p>
5. Creating distance between Druze with Resistance
How the Druze activism in regional developments for the Zionist regime It is important. Walid Jumblatt, the leader of the Lebanese Derzees, put the policy of isolation and silence on his agenda after the start of the Al-Aqsa storm operation, but with the escalation of the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza and the airstrikes of the Zionist army on the civilian areas of southern Lebanon, the crimes of this regime in Gaza and southern Lebanon condemned and defended the Islamic resistance of Lebanon. It seems that the Zionist regime has opened a special account on the issue that in the current situation, the killing of Syrian Druze in the Majdal Shams incident may end the resistance of the people of this region to accept the citizenship of the Zionist regime. Because the absorption of these people in the political and social structure of this regime and the end of their loyalty to the Syrian government is desirable for the occupation regime.
6. Launching a media campaign
The Zionist regime has been facing the most intense media and popular pressures in the world in recent months. Since the beginning of this regime’s attacks on Gaza, people’s groups around the world have been protesting against the regime’s inhuman behavior. The escalation of protests in Europe, despite the ban of European governments in Germany and France, and the protest of students in European universities and more than 20 American universities, which lasted for more than a month, questioned many actions of the occupying regime to justify its attacks in Gaza. At the same time, in the last week, the volume of protests against the actions of the Zionist regime has increased unprecedentedly.
In recent days, more than 100 places in Palestine Occupy is the field of protest against Netanyahu’s government. Netanyahu’s speech in the Congress was accompanied by widespread anti-Zionist demonstrations and the burning of the American flag. Most importantly, the Paris Olympics will be held as the most important sports event of the year, while the wave of support for Palestine has affected all of France, and many people in France and the countries participating in these games have called for the expulsion of the Zionist regime from these games. /span> It seems that the Zionist regime, by targeting Majdal Shams, is trying to use this incident as a great opportunity to launch a biased media campaign to portray itself as a victim against the resistance.
Result
Although many reports attributed the fault of the Zionist regime’s defense system to the targeting of Majdal Shams, and some They also consider this attack fake, but the authorities of the Zionist regime have launched a massive attack against Hezbollah in the last two days. Considering the strategic importance of the occupied Golan region and the Majdal Shams region, as well as the field conditions that the southern Lebanon region and the northern occupied territories are facing, the Zionist regime is seeking to cover up use this event on his actions in the killing of Palestinian civilians as well as dragging Lebanon into a full-scale war and oppressing him in the world arena.
Sajad Moradi Kalardeh; Researcher of international relations
