From Videos show Syrians in rebel-held region celebrating Nasrallah’s death last night
Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel
Videos circulating on social media show residents of the rebel-held region of Idlib, in north-western Syria, celebrating the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last night, before the IDF and the terror group announced it officially today.
Residents are shown handing out sweets to passers-by, thanking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and vowing that Syrian President Bashar Assad will be next in line.
Hezbollah has long been an ally of the Syrian regime under the Assad family and helped it in its fight against the Syrian opposition since the outbreak of the civil war in 2011 until 2019. The intervention of the Lebanese terror group was critical in defeating rebels and maintaining Bashar Assad in power.
The Idlib region, in the north-western corner of Syria, is under the control of the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which set up its own government and defense forces. Syrian government forces have launched repeated offenses to retake the region, but have so far been unsuccessful.
The region is home to a large number of internally displaced people who moved there from other parts of Syria. Estimates of its overall population range between 3 and 4.5 million, over half of whom are domestic refugees.
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A region not under Assad's control is probably celebrating the attack on #Nasrallah— viky choudhary (@VikramSiyol003) September 28, 2024
