Assad's military claims to have seized Israeli arms shipment in S. Syria
DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. April 28, 2016, 10:28 AM (IDT)
Syrian army sources claimed Wednesday that they had ambushed and captured a group of vehicles packed with Israeli weapons in the southern part of the country. The sources did not say specifically that the shipment came from Israel but pointed out that the weapons and ammunition were marked with Hebrew writing, indicating their source.
The sources also failed to specify the exact location of the ambush, only saying that the vehicles were travelling in the area of Swaida, the main Druze city in the Jebel Druze area of southern Syria.
The ambush was said to have been carried out after the authorities were tipped off by local residents about the movement of suspicious vehicles in the area. Syrian military sources reported that the vehicles carried Israeli mines, RPG rocket launchers, B9 guns, various types of mortars and hand grenades.
DEBKAfile's military sources point out that this report is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the secret war in southern Syria that involves at least 10 regional actors: the US, Russia, Syria, Iran, Hizballah, Jordan, Israel, the Syrian rebels, the Nusra Front and ISIS.
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Source: http://www.debka.com/newsupdate/16109/Assad-s-military-claims-to-have-seized-Israeli-arms-shipment-in-S-Syria
