UN: ’Israeli’ Drones Seen before Strike on Quneitera
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UN peacekeepers in the "Israeli"-occupied Golan Heights saw drones flying before an "Israeli" air strike on Syria that martyred six Hizbullah Resistance men and an Iranian general near Quneitra.
An "Israeli" security source confirmed to AFP that an "Israeli" helicopter carried out the strike but the UN account raised the possibility that drones may have been used.
UN spokesman Farhan Haq said the UN observer force in the Golan on Sunday "observed two unmanned aerial vehicles flying from the Alpha ("Israeli") side and crossing the ceasefire line."
"An hour later, smoke was observed coming from the general direction of position 30," Haq told reporters.
UN peacekeepers then saw the drones flying over the area of "position 30" and again crossing the ceasefire line, he added.
"The incident is a violation of the 1974 agreement on disengagement" between "Israel" and Syria, he added.
Syria has repeatedly accused armed groups such Syria's al-Qaeda branch, al-Nusra Front, who are active in the southern Quneitra countryside, of working hand in glove with the Zionist entity, from which they receive logistic support.
In December, the Syrian government accused Israel of launching a series of airstrikes on the outskirts of Damascus saying the strikes caused material damage to institutions in the area.
Observers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force [UNDOF] confirmed in a report published in December documenting cooperation and coordination between the "Israeli" army and militant groups in Syria.
The report revealed ongoing communication between armed groups' leaders and "Israeli" army officers, saying that "59 meetings took place from March 2013 to May, and that during this same period 89 injured militants were transported to "Israeli" hospitals, and 19 of them were returned to Syria along with two bodies."
On December 1, "Israeli" TV Channel 2 reported that "more than 449 wounded Syrian rebels" have received medical treatment at the Nahariya hospital, and in November "Israeli" website Walla reported that "Poriya Hospital has treated 124 wounded from Syria so far."
Last February, "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a field hospital in the Occupied Golan Heights for wounded Syrian militants.
In October, an exposé by "Israeli" political commentator Ehud Yaari confirmed an existing relationship between the two sides.
The "Israeli" writer also spoke about an "undeclared truce" between "Israel" and Nusra Front, which so far have not engaged in any clashes with the "Israeli" army.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
