January 2015 Mazraat Amal incident
| January 2015 Mazraat Amal incident | |
|---|---|
| Part of Hezbollah involvement and Iranian involvement in the Syrian civil war | |
| Location |
al-Amal Farms (Mazraat Amal), Syria 33°14′N 35°53′E / 33.23°N 35.88°E |
| Planned by | attributed to Israel claimed by Al-Nusra Front |
| Objective | To destroy a Hezbollah field unit |
| Date | January 18, 2015 |
| Executed by | attributed to IAF claimed by Al-Nusra Front |
| Outcome | Hezbollah group and accompanying Iranian general killed |
| Casualties |
 Six Hezbollah fighters killed, including Jihad Mughniyah and field commander Mohamad Issa
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Brig. Gen. Mohammad Ali Allahdadi
The January 2015 Mazraat Amal incident was an airstrike against a two-car convoy that killed six Hezbollah fighters, including two prominent members, and a general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Ali Allahdadi, at al-Amal Farms (Mazraat Amal) in the Quneitra District of Syria, in the Golan Heights, on 18 January 2015, during the Syrian Civil War. The attack was largely attributed to Israel, which did not officially confirm that it carried it out.Hezbollah and IRGC held Israel responsible and threatened to retaliate. Amid official silence, a flurry of statements from anonymous Israeli officials have made contradictory claims. One said Israel had been unaware that an Iranian general was in the convoy. Another anonymous senior Israeli security source said Israel believed it was attacking only low-ranking Hezbollah militants planning an attack on Israelis at the frontier fence, and that it had no idea the party contained prominent Hezbollah members, and least of all an Iranian general. Alex Fishman wrote in Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth that "one official apologizes anonymously, the other official refuses to apologize anonymously ... We are talking about a potential war and the heads of the state are playing hide and seek."
A United Nations spokesman reported that the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) observed two unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) flying from Israeli-occupied Golan and crossing the Area of Separation buffer zone towards UN position 30 on the Syrian controlled edge of the zone, where they lost track of them. An hour later they saw smoke coming from position 30 but could not identify the source. Later they observed drones coming from the area of position 30 and flying over Jabbata, in the Area of Separation. The spokesman stated that this was a violation of the 1974 Agreement on Disengagement between Israel and Syria. Residents of al-Amal Farms said that two cars arrived there, and within ten minutes two aircraft fired two missiles on each car. The resulting explosions left charred tyres, molten metal and car parts strewn about. One local was struck in the head by shrapnel and taken to hospital. Hezbollah said that one of their vehicles was destroyed and another damaged. Reports prior to the United Nations statement suggested an attack by an Israeli helicopter, but the later reports indicated it may have been by drones.
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