Homs | Military security enhances its presence around headquarters of Lebanese Hezbollah in southern Al-Qusayr
Homs province: The command of the military security branch (261) has enhanced their presence at the entrances of villages around Al-Qusayr city in the southern countryside of Homs, where deployed tens of the branch’s members have been deployed at checkpoints in the area stretching from Homs-Damascus highway in the west to the main checkpoint in Qatinah town in the east.
SOHR sources in Homs have reported the arrival of a military bus and a personnel carrier (a Zil vehicle) this afternoon at the petrol station in Al-Makhal the south of Homs city centre, before they headed to the agricultural road which links the farms of Aabel, Al-Mubarakiyah and Hosh Al-Shaar villages and Qatinah town.
Local sources have confirmed the arrival of reinforcement of members of the intelligence military security branch escorting a “Zil vehicle” a checkpoints, where they started to unload the new equipment. In addition, every checkpoint was boosted with a 23 caliber machinegun, where those checkpoints had been fortified a few days earlier.
A local source, speaking anonymously due to the sensitivity of the issue, has confirmed that these movements come as a part of raising the security readiness of the checkpoints’ members whose task is to impose a security siege around a group of farms which host security headquarters of the Lebanese Hezbollah.
SOHR sources have also reported that the Israeli airstrike which frequently hit Al-Dab’ah airbase to the south of Al-Qusayr city, which is run by Hezbollah, have pushed the military command to establish their headquarters in areas that are relatively far away from the targeted sites. However, fighter jets had attacked an ammunitions and rocket depots near Shaher Allawi petrol station last April, which left casualties among the militiamen of Hezbollah and caused material damage.
It is worth noting that security members stationed at checkpoints near the warehouses of the Lebanese Hezbollah to the north of Al-Qusayr city have prevented the return of the residents of the region to their homes, except for a few individuals close to commanders in the regime security services and pledging allegiance to the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Syrian regime.