Iran Press/Middle East: In an interview with the British daily ,The Sunday Times, the Israeli army’s outgoing chief of staff, Lieutenant General Gadi Eizenkot said the regime had given “light” weapons to anti-Damascus militant groups operating in Syria’s Golan Heights for so-called “self-defense.”
It is the first time the Tel Aviv regime acknowledges arms supplies to the militants in Syria.
The Syrian army has confiscated numerous Israeli-made weapons and military equipment during its many clean-up operations in the Golan Heights for years.
In September, the Israeli newspaper, Jerusalem Post, published an 'explosive report', which revealed the Israeli military had supplied weapons and ammunition to the militants in Syria’s Golan Heights but later removed the report at the request of the Israeli army’s “military censor.”
Meanwhile, 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 regime had given $75-per-person monthly allowances to militants and funds to their ringleaders meant to procure weapons on the black market.
In return, the report added, militants were supposed to deter Hezbollah resistance fighters and Iran military advisers from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
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