Jihadist group White Helmets evacuated: To be resettled in Europe, US, and Canada
23 July, 2018
Israeli
PM Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed that US President Donald Trump and
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have reportedly asked Israel
to evacuate the members of the Western-backed White Helmets from
Syria.
Netanyahu
said in a video address on Sunday…
“President
Trump and also Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, as well as others,
requested us to help take out from Syria hundreds of White Helmets
members.”
Netanyahu
described the White Helmets, who have been accused of cooperating
with terrorists and faking chemical attacks, as “people who saved
lives.”
Netanyahu
further noted that the members of jihadist group were “under
life-threatening danger… I therefore authorized for them to be
transferred through Israel to other countries as an important
humanitarian measure.”
On
Saturday Israel evacuated several hundred White Helmet staff and
their families from the Golan Heights region in southern Syria to
Jordan. The initial plan reportedly involved the evacuation of 800
people, but the Jordanian authorities later said that only 422 made
it into the country.
Israeli
Foreign Ministry spokesman, Emmanuel Nahshon, wrote on Twitter that
Israel carried out the operation “upon request of the US, Canada
and European states.”
Several days ago @POTUS Trump contacted me, as did @CanadianPM Trudeau and others, and requested that we assist in evacuating hundreds of 'White Helmets' from Syria. These are people who have saved lives and whose lives were in danger.
The
Syrian Foreign Ministry has condemned the evacuation of the White
Helmets personnel from the country, calling it a “criminal
operation” by “Israel and its tools.”
“The
operation carried out by Israel and its subordinates is criminal, it
revealed the true nature of the so-called White Helmets, Syria warned
about its danger,” the ministry’s spokesperson told the SANA
state news agency.
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