Syria’s task force comprised of 700 tanks, against Israel’s 175 their.

One group put the toll at more than 300 civilians.Īssad’s father, Hafez al-Assad, crushed an armed Islamist uprising in Hama nearly 30 years ago, killing many thousands of people and razing parts of the city’s old quarter to the ground. Syrian tanks penetrated Israel’s front lines on the first day of the Yom Kippur War and raced across the Golan Heights. More than a dozen Turkish tanks and other military vehicles crossed into Syria on Saturday in an effort to secure the border. In Hama, troops stormed houses and arrested dozens of people as tanks and armoured vehicles deployed throughout the city, residents said, after a week-long assault which activists say killed at least 130 people. Is a licensed reproduction that was printed on premium heavy stock paper which captures all of the. SANA also quoted an official source saying 13 mutilated bodies of members of the security forces were found in the Orontes River near Hama on Saturday and that two soldiers were killed near Homs. A Russian t-72 main Battle tank destroyed in azaz Syria. State television broadcast footage of weapons it said were seized at the border with Lebanon. The source, quoted by SANA, said the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council had ignored the “killing and sabotage carried out by armed groups.”

An official source also criticised a statement by Gulf Arab states who broke months of silence on Saturday to express concern about over the violence in Syria.

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