The fear is growing that the Iranians are taking advantage of the earthquake in Syria to smuggle weapons convoys - voila! news

In the video: Chief of Staff Kochavi: Israel is responsible for attacking a weapons convoy on the Syria-Iraq border (Walla system!)

Security officials are warning that there is a growing fear that the Iranians are taking advantage of the earthquake in Syria to smuggle in weapons convoys under the guise of monetary aid for citizens who remain homeless.

IDF sources claim that this is a much more complex intelligence and operational challenge than usual, since the Iranians claimed more than once before the earthquake that Israel was attacking humanitarian convoys, which were intended to provide food to the Syrian people. Now, according to those sources, they have been given legitimacy to expand the scope of the

convoys The trucks that make their way from Iran, through Iraq to Syria more than before. The sources confirmed that last week trucks passed through these traffic routes, but refused to comment beyond that on the question of what those trucks were carrying.

Attack on a convoy of trucks on the Syria-Iraq border, January 29, 2023 (photo: official website, Twitter)

Attack in the name of Homs, November 2022 (photo: official website, use according to Article 27 A of the Copyright Law)

In mid-December 2022, Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, in a speech at a conference in memory of former Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin Shakh, took responsibility for an attack on a weapons convoy attributed to Israel on the Syria-Iraq border.

"We could not have known a few weeks ago about the Syrian convoy moving from Iraq to Syria, that out of 25 trucks - truck number 8 is the truck with the Amalah.

That's where the pilots should be sent to attack, hit and return," said Kochavi.

In the attack that Kochavi was referring to, vehicles in the convoy were bombed, and at least 14 people were killed - most of them fighters in the ranks of the pro-Iranian militias, according to reports in Arab media. After the attack, Israeli military officials said that the convoy The trucks that were attacked on the Iraq-Syria border were not only carrying fuel, but also weapons and ammunition. This, contrary to the claim of the regime in Tehran regarding a humanitarian shipment. It should be noted that last week the

Israeli government offered to deliver humanitarian aid through Russian mediation to the Syrian people, following the earthquakes and the report of thousands of dead. But the Syrian regime refused.

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