Syrian Defense Minister: Army Strong, Syria will Remain United

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The Syria Defense Minister Fahd Jassem al-Freij, stressed Monday that the Syrian Army proved to the whole world that it is a strong and well-trained army, and Syria will remain united.

In an interview with the Syrian TV Channel, Gen. al-Freij said: "The "Israeli" enemy instructed the armed terrorist groups to attack Syria's air defenses because the "Israeli" enemy knows that Syria has air defenses that cover the whole country and prevent its aircrafts from carrying out any violation without the knowledge of the Syrian Army."
"When the Army viewed that the air defenses are being greatly focused on, a decision was made to deploy them in safe places that the armed terrorist groups will not be able to attack ]with mortar shells," he mentioned.

In parallel, al-Freij asserted that the ""Israeli" attack on the scientific research center in Jamraya was carried out in coordination between "Israel" and the armed groups."
He further pointed out that the failure of the armed terrorist groups to attack this center pushed "Israel" to intervene and carry out the attack through its warplanes to respond to the heavy losses inflicted upon its tools.
Regarding al-Yarmouk Camp , al-Freij stressed that the Army did not enter the area at all.
"The armed terrorist groups, instructed by "Israel", planned to enter the area to embarrass Syria and expose the Syrian Army as entering the area to attack the Palestinians," he said, and noted that "the armed terrorist groups are targeting the infrastructure of the state, including hospitals, schools and factories which means that they are targeting the Syrians in the first place."

He added that the main task of the Armed Forces is protecting the borders and confronting the Zionist entity which is occupying Syrian land, but when large numbers of terrorists were recruited to carry out the conspiracy against Syria, the military's duty was to pursue the terrorists.
"The failure of the plan to subvert Syria from the outside pushed the conspirators to try to subvert it from inside, so the US, Western and Zionist administrations planned for that and the Arab regimes, unfortunately, funded their plans," he concluded.

Source: SANA, Edited by moqawama.org