Syria seizes US, Israeli arms from militants +Video

Syria has released footage of American- and Israeli-made weapons seized by the Syrian army from Takfiri militants in the capital, Damascus.

Syria’s official news agency said Sunday that the Syrian army units had confiscated the weapons in the town of Khan al-Shih in the countryside of Damascus.

The Syrian government says the Tel Aviv regime and its Western and regional allies are aiding the Takfiri militant groups fighting against Damascus.

On April 28, Syrian officials and locals confiscated a vehicle loaded with Israeli-manufactured weapons bound for the Takfiri Daesh terrorists in the Arab country’s southern province of Suwayda.

The vehicle, which was coming from eastern Dara’a Province, was heading to the eastern Badiya desert.

Anti-personnel landmines, RPG launcher and rounds, B9 shells, 120-mm, 80-mm, and 60-mm mortars, grenades and 23-mm machine-gun rounds were among the weapons confiscated back then.

Earlier in April, popular defense groups in Suwayda also seized a car packed with RPG rounds and other shells on their way to the Badiya desert.

Israel has also been treating the wounded militants from Syria in its medical centers and hospitals. Syrian sources have frequently reported that, after receiving treatment at the Israeli hospitals, the militants return to Syria to continue their acts of sabotage and terror.

Israel has spent millions of dollars for the treatment of the militants injured in fighting with Syrian government forces, documents from Israeli hospitals show.

Russia denies role in attack on Syria school

Meanwhile, Russia has once again rejected claims that its warplanes have had any role in fatal airstrikes on a school filled with students in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib last month.

The Russian army said on Monday that there was no proof whatsoever of Moscow’s involvement in the airstrikes on the school.

Initial reports on the attack on the school in the village of Hass in Idlib province, where some 28 civilians are said to have been killed, came from the so-called London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is close to Syrian opposition.

According to an RT report, the Russian Defense Ministry dispatched a drone to analyze the site of the alleged bombing on the same day and found no evidence of airstrikes.

“The Ministry of Defense already published comprehensive and absolute drone-filmed photographic facts on October 27, which showed the absence of any traces of bombing at the school complex in Hass,” the statement from the ministry noted.

The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, says 22 students and six teachers were killed in Hass village on October 26.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for a thorough investigation into the attack, warning that the attack on the school could amount to a war crime. 

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