Israeli Military Finally Admits Supplying Arms to Syria Militants

The Israeli military has finally confirmed long-running reports of its collaboration with militant groups operating against the Syrian government, admitting that it has provided weapons to them, Press TV reported.

In an interview with the British daily The Sunday Times, Lieutenant General Gadi Eizenkot, the army’s outgoing chief of staff, said the Israeli regime had supplied “light” weapons to anti-Damascus militant groups operating in Syria’s for “self-defense.”

This is the first time the Tel Aviv regime acknowledges arms supplies to militants fighting in Syria, after numerous reports emerged of the discovery of Israeli-made weapons and military equipment during clean-up operations by the Syrian army.

In September, Israel’s Jerusalem Post removed an “explosive report,” which revealed the Israeli military had supplied weapons and ammunition to the militants in Syria’s Golan. The paper later told Russia’s RT that the report had been taken down at the request of the Israeli army’s “military censor.”

The Foreign Policy magazine reported last September that Israel had covertly sponsored at least a dozen militant groups operating in southern Syria.

Citing interviews with several militant figures, the report said that Israeli officials had given $75 per-person monthly allowances to militants as well as funds to their ringleaders meant to procure weapons on the black market.

The occupying regime has also been providing medical treatment to extremist elements wounded during fighting in Syria.

Tel Aviv frequently attacks military targets inside Syria in an attempt to prop up Takfiri terrorist outfits that have been suffering heavy defeats against Syrian government forces.

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