🇮🇱🇵🇸🕊 — Alqassam released a clip of the 4 female Israeli soldiers exchanged today speaking Arabic and thanking Alqassam brigades:

➡️Alsalamu alaykum, hello, thanks for Alqassam for the good treatment.

➡️Thanks for the food, water and clothes.

➡️Thanks to the men who were guarding and taking care for us from the Israeli bombardments.

➡️I hope it'll be a good day and everyone will be alright.

📝Some Israeli outlets will now claim they were forced to say so, if that's the case, since they were handed over to you, let them go on a live interview and say it.

— 🇸🇾 UPDATE: The news of HTS withdrawing yesterday seems to be false, here's what really happened:

Two days ago, news started spreading on X that Maher Al-Assad had returned to Western Syria. This rumor was apparently sparked by the fact that a famous Syrian actor who played Maher Al-Assad in a movie, had returned to Latakia after years abroad. Pro-Assad outlets quickly spread the news, thinking it was the real guy.

As a result of this, former SAA factions and pro-Assad loyalists believed the news, and started gathering in some areas of Latakia and Tartous. Some sleeper cells shot into the sky to 'celebrate Maher Al-Assad's return'.

This led to some HTS units temporarily leaving their positions, in order to evaluate the situation. They thought they might be dealing with an organized uprising. Then, they called in reinforcements, and consolidated their positions. They combed Latakia and Tartous for sleeper cells, and various individuals were arrested.

@Middle_East_Spectator