The Israeli KAN channel has revealed that Chief of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate Major General Tamir Hayman and former Chief of General Staff of the Israel occupation Forces Gadi Eizenkot met several members of terrorist groups in 2013.
It made it clear in a report screened recently that 7 years ago, Hayman and Eizenkot infiltrated into the area of separation between the occupied Syrian Golan and Syria where they met terrorists affiliated to al-Nusra Front [AKN Jabhat al-Nusra, who were occupying the area then.
The channel affirmed that the occupation entity offered military and logistic support and medical treatment to terrorist groups in Israeli hospitals.
In an interview with the British Sunday Times in January 2019, Eisenkot acknowledged for the first time that Israel had indeed provided weaponry to terrorist groups in Syria during the country’s seven-year war.
In June 2017, The U.N. Security Council has been informed of an increase in contacts between the Israeli occupation forces and terrorist groups in Syria.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sent a report prepared by the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which documented a long-term rise in the number of interactions between Israeli occupation forces and terrorist groups. For example, between November 18, 2016, and March 1, 2017, 17 such interactions were observed along the occupied Golan border, including in the vicinity of Mt. Hermon. By contrast, U.N. observers witnessed 33 interactions between Israeli and terrorist representatives over the last seven months. Only two such meetings took place from August 30 to November 16 of last year.
The U.N. secretary general clarified in the report that the nature of the interactions could not be observed.
However, the matter comes to light just one day after a report in The Wall Street Journal which said that Israel has been funding terrorist groups’ military activities as well.
Hundreds of UN troops withdrew from the Syrian-held side of the Golan to the Israeli side in September 2014 after Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists kidnapped dozens of peacekeepers.
In late August 2014, terrorists on the Syrian side including Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front kidnapped more than 40 Fijian UNDOF troops and released them two weeks later.
Basma Qaddour
