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Shafaq News-
Damascus
Syrian customs
seized 226 grenades hidden inside a vehicle traveling to Lebanon, according to
the country’s General Authority for Borders and Customs.
The devices
were concealed in secret compartments in a car stopped at the Jdeidet Yabous
crossing, a checkpoint on the Damascus-Beirut road at the Syria-Lebanon border.
The RGC devices
had been packed tightly into hidden compartments. Officers found them during a
search of a car that had set out for Lebanese territory.
On July 16, the
General Authority foiled an attempt to smuggle a shipment of long-range
missiles, rockets, and drones bound for Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese
armed group. The shipment was found concealed inside an oil tanker-truck at the
al-Tanf crossing on Syria’s border with Iraq.
Hezbollah denied
conducting any activity in Syria and dismissed the accusation as baseless.