IDF has
forced the Jerusalem Post to remove its explosive report on the
Israeli military giving weapons to the Syrian rebels, the newspaper’s
managing editor confirmed to RT.
“We
were told by the army’s military censor to remove that part of the
story,” David Brinn, the managing editor of the Jerusalem Post
told RT as he replied to a request for comment. The report, ‘IDF
confirms: Israel provided light-weapons to Syrian rebels,’ which
claimed that the Israeli military acknowledged for the first time
that it had provided money, weapons and ammunition to the Syrian
militants, was removed just hours after being published without any
explanation.
According
to Brinn, the story was removed “for security reasons
evidently.” The IDF told RT that it would not comment on the
issue.
The
Jerusalem Post article was removed shortly after being published, but
a version of the article can still be read using Google cache
It
claimed that regular supplies of light weapons and ammunition to the
Syrian militants holding the territories near the Israeli border were
part of the Operation Good Neighbor, which Israel portrayed as a
humanitarian mission, which was focused on providing Syrians with
“food, clothes and fuel.”
Israel
has been arming at least seven different armed groups in Syria’s
Golan Heights, the report said. It also added that the Israeli
military believed that providing weapons to the militants was “the
right decision” as they sought to keep Hezbollah and Iran away
from Israel’s Golan Heights by such means.
The
deleted report comes on the heels of another major disclosure. On
Monday, the IDF announced that Israel has carried out more than 200
strikes on Syrian targets in the past year and a half.
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