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Israeli Drone Strike on Syria Army Fourth Attack This Week, as IDF-Aided Rebels Plea for Help

  • An armed IDF UAV (L) and a file photo of foreign-backed, Quneitra-based Free Syria Army militants (R).

    An armed IDF UAV (L) and a file photo of foreign-backed, Quneitra-based Free Syria Army militants (R). | Photo: Issam Al Reis - IDF Handout

Published 30 June 2017
Opinion

The drone strike came the same day as rebels appeared in The Jerusalem Post to beg for aid to the “Operations of the Army of Muhammed” campaign.

Israeli occupation forces launched yet another aggressive attack on Syrian troops Friday in retaliation for a stray shell landing in the illegally occupied Israeli-held section of the Golan Heights.

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The attack, the fourth of this nature in this week alone, came in response to what the occupying forces admitted was an “errant projectile from internal fighting in Syria” as government forces continue to battle jihadist rebels.

According to local media reports, the attack was allegedly carried out by an armed Israeli drone, which struck a Syrian Army tank and a 105-millimeter cannon in the strategic Quneitra region, which has been the location of furious battles in recent days. However, Syrian government forces have not admitted to firing the stray shell that landed in the occupied Golan, which could just as easily have been purposely fired by rebel commanders loyal to Israel.

Damascus has pointed to the fact that the Israeli military has aided Islamist extremist groups, a fact admitted last week by the Quneitra-based Fursan al-Joulan, or the Knights of the Golan, in a report by the Wall Street Journal. Israeli occupying forces have established field hospitals to aid the rebels, in addition to financing the group's salaries, weapons and ammunition.

Also Friday, Israeli occupation newspaper The Jerusalem Post published an exclusive interview with Quneitra-based rebel spokesman Abu Omar al-Golani, who directly appealed to Jordan, the U.S. and Israel to aid “revolutionary factions” in their fight to “liberate” Quneitra province from “Assad regime forces” as a part of the unified anti-government campaign named “Operations of the Army of Muhammed.” The anti-government alliance is being led by rebranded al-Qaida affiliate “the Levant Liberation Committee,” formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra.

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Al-Golani also admitted that anti-government rebels have been transported to hospitals within Israeli territory in the past, and expressed his hope that Jordanian and Israeli authorities would admit wounded fighters within their borders for treatment and help “eliminate the Shi'ite terrorist militias and Iranian gangs of the Assad terrorist regime.” The Quneitra-based rebel spokesman has regularly appealed for foreign backing in his media appearances, where he has been variously described as an “opposition activist,” “media activist” and, in a Washington Post interview from 2013, a “Free Syrian Army brigade leader.”

Israeli occupation forces seized 70 percent of the Golan Heights from Syria during its expansionist military campaign in 1967 and later annexed the strategic region in a blatantly colonialist move backed by Tel Aviv's financiers in the United States.

The Israelis have long made public admissions through its press mouthpieces that the occupation hopes to secure a buffer of “friendly forces” between the occupied Golan and Syrian-government held territory, with prominent media personalities discussing the need to assist Islamist rebels regardless of their “religious extremist views” and “buy their loyalty through material aid,” as chief military-security correspondent for Yedioth Ahronoth, Alex Fishman, admitted this week.

The Syrian Arab Armed Forces claims to have seized large caches of Israeli-manufactured weapons and military equipment as it has continued to defeat foreign-backed rebels alongside Russia and its regional allies.

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