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17.05.2026
The Headline
The organization smuggling weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon: 1. Iran transfers to the Syrian border; Shiite organizations to warehouses in Homs
2. Turkey silences Syria, allowing Hezbollah to pull the weapons from the warehouses in Homs to Lebanon
3. Israel does not attack the smuggling routes, or the warehouses, because of Trump. 4. The Turkish army does not participate
5. The Turkish army also does not participate in the training of Hamas terrorists in Turkey, our question: Is the Turkish army distancing itself from Erdogan
6. Hamas terrorists who complete training in Turkey are transferred to the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Lebanon to the Hamas organization
Turkey, Iran, Iraqi and Syrian Shiite organizations, and Hezbollah in Lebanon, have established a logistical mechanism for arming Hezbollah, and a logistical route for a near or distant conflict with Israel. The established mechanism could also expand towards the West Bank, via Jordan; in the past we reported on Jordan's preparations for an invasion by Shiite organizations from Iraq, on their way to the West Bank. In April 2023, we reported here on a command room established by Iran and its organizations in preparation for a war against Israel. Today we report on the establishment of a new military-political system that replaces the defeated mechanism, a system that is this time led from Erdogan's Ankara. This decision by Turkey against Israel seems somewhat disconnected from the behaviour of the Turkish army, which does not take part in it, and in today's editorial we expand on this: training that is taking place in Turkey in small groups and without uniforms, as we reported in our previous issue. See today in the editorial
By Meir Journo, our military and security commentator
A source told Meir Journo, our military and security commentator, that Turkey, Iran, and Shiite organizations have established a logistics network that is currently used by Hezbollah. The network transports weapons from Iran to Syria via Iraq, and from there the weapons are transferred to Iranian and Hezbollah warehouses in the Homs region of Syria; since Turkey prevents al-Sha'ra from interfering in the new logistics network, the weapons are transferred without any interference from Homs to the battlefield against Israel in Lebanon. The operatives of the new logistics network are members of Shiite organizations in Iraq and Syria. In the past, we reported on deep concern in Jordan that Shiite organizations will attempt to invade the West Bank and Israel through Jordan; the current report on the new network could also be a logistical line for such an invasion; Israel is not attacking the new logistics network, because the US is preventing it from expanding the war. In a manner that emphasizes this prevention, the US announced immediately after President Trump's return from China, the "extension of the ceasefire" between Hezbollah and Israel by 45 days.