{"id":11085,"date":"2017-11-07T03:39:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T03:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11085"},"modified":"2017-11-07T03:39:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T03:39:10","slug":"palestinian-authority-accuses-israel-of-supporting-terrorists-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/palestinian-authority-accuses-israel-of-supporting-terrorists-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Authority accuses Israel of supporting terrorists in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Palestinian Authority has accused Israel\u00a0of supporting terrorist groups in Syria after Tel Aviv threatened to directly intervene in the war following an elaborate attack on a Syrian\u00a0<\/strong>Druze village.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Israeli military on Friday threatened to launch an incursion into Syria \u201cto protect\u201d residents in Hader,\u00a0which is\u00a0populated by the Arab country\u2019s Druze minority known for supporting\u00a0the Syrian government.<\/p>\n

Earlier that day, at least nine people were killed and 23 others wounded in a car bombing by Nusra Front terrorists, which\u00a0also involved an exchange of\u00a0fire with government troops based in\u00a0the village\u00a0close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.<\/p>\n

After the attack, people in the Golan Heights held a protest to condemn what they called Israel\u2019s support for anti-Damascus terrorists. Israeli forces were deployed to the area to disperse the protesters.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the Palestinian Authority said\u00a0Tel Aviv \u201ctactically retreated\u201d from its decision to \u201csupport the so-called Syrian opposition from occupying the Syrian Druze village of Hader.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Members of the Druze community residing in Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights use a megaphone to communicate with their Syrian Druze friends and relatives on the other side of the border on November 4, 2017, a day after an attack in the Syrian Druze village of Hader. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The statement said that Israel\u2019s retreat\u00a0came \u201cunder pressure from Druze reactions in Israel\u201d to \u201cthe suspicious relationship between the regime in Tel Aviv\u201d with al-Qaeda and al-Nusra terrorists.<\/p>\n

Israel, the ministry said, is providing al-Nusra with weapons, salaries, medical aid and intelligence to fight Syrian troops and keep them at bay from the territories under the occupation.<\/p>\n

Since a war in 1967, Israel has occupied two-thirds of the\u00a0Golan Heights but Hader has remained\u00a0under the Syrian control, with a\u00a0population which is strongly loyal to the government in Damascus.<\/p>\n

Israel has widely been reported to be providing medical treatment and other assistance to Nusra Front terrorists in Golan.<\/p>\n

Tel Aviv has also repeatedly targeted the Syrian army positions, with Damascus saying the attacks were aimed at propping up the militants.<\/p>\n

In June, UN chief\u00a0Antonio Guterres expressed concerns about a spike in contacts between the Israeli military and Syria militants, saying it could lead to an escalation and cause harm to UN observers deployed to the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal said in the same month that Israel had been providing Takfiri terrorists in Syria\u2019s Golan Heights with a steady flow of funds and medical supplies.<\/p>\n

In September 2016, Israeli lawmaker Akram Hasson criticized Israel for supporting Takfiri terrorists in Syria, saying Israel\u2019s escalation of attacks on the Syrian army positions in the Golan Heights had been aimed at paving the way for the terrorist group to gain more ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Palestinian Authority has accused Israel\u00a0of supporting terrorist groups in Syria after Tel Aviv threatened to directly intervene in the war following an elaborate attack on a Syrian\u00a0Druze village. The Israeli military on Friday threatened to launch an incursion into Syria \u201cto protect\u201d residents in Hader,\u00a0which is\u00a0populated by the Arab country\u2019s Druze minority known for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11087,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11085\/revisions\/11087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}