UN details Israel helping Syrian rebels at Golan Heights
Israeli security forces have kept steady contacts with the Syrian
rebels over the past 18 months, mainly treating wounded fighters but
possibly supplying them with arms, UN observers at the Israeli-Syrian
border reported.
In a series of reports to the UN Security Council
by the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), there
are a number of documented instances (March 2013 – December 2014)
of Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF) dealings with “armed members
of the opposition” on the Israeli-Syrian border of the Golan
Heights.
The reports do not distinguish various Syrian militants fighting
against President Bashar Assad, which range from West-supported
Free Syrian Army to the radical Islamists of the Islamic State,
formerly known as ISIS.
“UNDOF sporadically observed armed members of the opposition
interacting with IDF across the ceasefire line in the vicinity of
United Nations position 85,” the most recent report reads.
