Latakia-SANA
The October Liberation War, with its results and implications, embodied an important and defining event in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, restoring the confidence of the Arab fighter in himself and his army and establishing a new equation based on will, initiative, self-confidence, and the ability to achieve victory.
The heroic men of the Syrian Arab Army, who had the honor of participating in this national heroic epic 49 years ago, talk about the feelings of pride that ignite in their souls, which are deeply embedded in their conscience, and accompanies them to this day, feelings that years have not been able to erase or mitigate. From the brilliance of her memory.
The battle to liberate the Jabal al-Sheikh Observatory and the scenes of the fall and crash of the Zionist enemy’s planes in the skies of the homeland, talked about by retired Major General Reda Shariqi, head of the Veterans Association in Lattakia, and he says to SANA’s reporter: “I had the honor of participating in the joint Syrian-Egyptian air raids that flattened and destroyed the Israeli forts.” The October war constituted a detail for the history of Syria and the Arab nation, and restored to the Arab fighter his position by taking the initiative, and laid the foundations for the time of subsequent victories against the Zionist entity.
Sharqi believes that the battles to defend the homeland and its sacred soil are still ongoing, and have not stopped since the October war. For years, Syria has fought wars to defend its soil and national independence and the sovereignty and independence of brotherly Lebanon, all the way to the war it is waging today against terrorism, which will be crowned with victory because we are the rightful owners. .
Retired Brigadier General Yahya Zakaria recalls those days full of strength and will, saying: “I was a captain at the time and chief of staff of the infantry battalion in Ras Shamra, and our tasks were to confront the naval landings. The details of that war cannot be forgotten, especially when the war began at two o’clock in the afternoon of the sixth of October The first is an Arab decision, so that dozens of planes and hundreds of cannons simultaneously destroy the enemy’s fortresses that it has built in the occupied lands, and we succeeded on the first day of progress in the occupied Syrian Golan, which caused an earthquake within the Zionist entity.”
Zakaria points out that the October war "smashed the myth of the enemy army, which described itself as invincible, liberated the Arab will, changed the equation of the Arab-Israeli conflict, liberated Quneitra, and the founding leader Hafez al-Assad raised the flag of the nation over its pure soil."
Retired Brigadier General Saleh Qaher says about the memories of Tishreen al-Tahrir: “I was an officer in the armored corps within the ranks of the Special Forces, and we carried out many combat missions. I was injured three times, and in one of them the tank driver tore his inner shirt and made it a tie to stop the blood bleeding from my arm.” He added: "We carried out many operations and destroyed many enemy tanks, and this sighting and image is still firmly rooted in my memory and conscience."
Qaher continued, with words filled with pride and sadness for comrades who were martyred during the battles: “We were fighting the enemy and our slogan was martyrdom or victory. After they wrote the most wonderful epics of heroism and sacrifice in defense of the homeland.”
In turn, retired Brigadier General Hafez Barakat pointed out that the Tishreen Liberation War was "the first Arab war that achieved impressive successes, which enabled it to destroy the Alon line in the Golan and the Bar Lev fortified line in the Sinai, and to cross the Suez Canal and used airdrops extensively on Jabal al-Sheikh, Tal Abu al-Nada and Tell The Persians, also carried out ambushes of tanks and anti-aircraft, and the will of the Arab fighter was liberated at that time.”
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