EA World View
The General Commission of Yabroud said Monday that the Lebanese group’s fighters “are emptying…dozens of houses” in the Qaa neighborhood of the town, which is on the M5 motorway linking Damascus to the Mediterranean coast via Homs.
Hezbollah, the Syrian military, and pro-Assad militia seized Yabroud in March 2014 during an offensive from the Lebanese-Syrian border across the Qalamoun region.
The General Commission of Yabrud, Hezbollah fighters moved resident on the pretext that they need the buildings for military purposes. It said Hezbollah purchased “more than 25 houses” and acquired more through middlemen.
Syria’s opposition has repeatedly accused the Assad regime and its allies Iran and Hezbollah of attempting to institute demographic changes in sensitive areas of the country, including Qalamoun and southwest Damascus.