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00:00:01an arms depot, according to initial
00:00:04information, in the Al-Eis area in the southern
00:00:07Aleppo countryside.
00:00:14in the last two months, God is great.
00:00:23of this, the storekeeper
00:00:27tens of thousands of rounds at
00:00:34God is great, young men. This God
00:00:37is great.
00:00:43God is great. God is great.
00:01:09It is impossible to hit has zero effect.
00:01:20received information from is launched or it is targeted
00:01:31God is great.
00:01:33Tuman bridge from
00:01:38the nearby villages
00:01:44near the site of this So, viewers, we are following these new images of the explosions
00:01:48that hit a weapons storage
00:01:53an interest. Those who reject integration depot in the Al-Eis area in the southern Aleppo countryside.
00:01:55And according to what is clear from the images, there is a series
00:01:59of large and massive explosions,
00:02:03and the launch of shrapnel and missiles
00:02:06Okay. resulting from these explosions.
00:02:09The size of the explosions is large,
00:02:13as I mentioned, is impossible and as we follow, these explosions
00:02:16are near passing vehicles, and also
00:02:20from residential areas. And so far, there is no
00:02:25explosions, of course, from complete this initial information about casualties or victims.
00:02:27the missiles in this We return to Brigadier General Muhammad Al-Baqqa'i. Brigadier General,
00:02:31if we follow these images
00:02:34of the horror of the explosions,
00:02:38if I asked you about the nature of these
00:02:41weapons and stored materials that result
00:02:44in this or these large
00:02:47explosions?
00:02:51committees capable of I mean, Professor Hussam, we heard and saw in
00:02:54the explosions that there are missiles flying
00:02:58Muhammad, are from for tens of kilometers. I mean, if we assume, if we
00:03:02assume, and I return, and I return, let me
00:03:05let me, in less than half a minute, return a little
00:03:08to the topic of the hypothesis of bombing these
00:03:11depots by enemy aircraft. Professor
00:03:13Hussam,
00:03:15I mean, Professor Muhammad Nour, your correspondent,
00:03:19if you please, if you please,
00:03:20Madam,
00:03:25several very important points, I will return to you. Sorry, I will return to you to repeat
00:03:27this idea. Muhammad Nour, correspondent
00:03:31of Syria TV.
00:03:34Al-Asmar talked about I mean, Muhammad, the explosions have returned
00:03:37now.
00:03:39Talhadiya Yes, Hussam, I mean, the explosions have returned
00:03:43at the main bombing site in the Al-Eis
00:03:46area with the sound of a very
00:03:49huge explosion, followed by two more explosions within
00:03:53يعني five minutes from now, a large
00:03:57explosion, and also two explosions. At
00:04:00the site
00:04:02The personnel dealing with
00:04:04that the shelling is from of the explosion that occurred
00:04:04ammunition and ammunition depots must in the weapons depot in the Al-Eis area,
00:04:07now civil defense teams, as
00:04:10I mentioned earlier, have reached some
00:04:13nearby villages from the explosion site and have not
00:04:16recorded any human casualties until this moment,
00:04:20and what follows. I mean, we heard the sound
00:04:24of the big explosion. I don't know if civil defense teams
00:04:27will advance further to the site of the explosion
00:04:31or remain in their places because the fires in this
00:04:35depot
00:04:37systems, and we used to fire them had somewhat subsided.
00:04:38know this, my brother. You are dealing A quarter of an hour ago, civil defense and ambulance teams advanced to
00:04:43at the explosion the residential areas, and
00:04:43and weapons depots. then, five minutes ago, a large explosion occurred, followed
00:04:47by two explosions at the same
00:04:51site, and the fires reignited
00:04:54in the same place. Hussam,
00:04:57I mean, perhaps now all the people of Aleppo
00:05:00have woken up to these explosions.
00:05:03There was, I mean, at the beginning, a state of anxiety
00:05:07and fear, to some extent, until they confirmed the location
00:05:10of the explosion, because everyone who heard the sounds
00:05:14of the explosions said that it was near them, due to the intensity of these
00:05:17explosions. But Hussam,
00:05:21I mean, as the Brigadier General mentioned,
00:05:24I mean,
00:05:27we have observed explosions in several
00:05:30depots in Syria, in the Binish depot, in the Muhammad
00:05:33depot. As for Muhammad, as for the security situation in Aleppo, is
00:05:37there any security movement towards the location or deployment
00:05:40of security in Aleppo or around the explosion
00:05:44site? Indeed, Hussam, I mean, from the moment
00:05:47of the explosion, there was a security alert
00:05:51for the Ministry of
00:05:54Interior, and there was also an alert
00:05:57for the Ministry of Defense because the explosion occurred
00:06:00in one of the Ministry of Defense's depots. But
00:06:04the Ministry of Interior's
00:06:07internal security rushed
00:06:10to deploy near the explosion site,
00:06:14and there is a security
00:06:17deployment, in addition to preventing some
00:06:20residents from approaching the explosion site.
00:06:22It also cut off the Aleppo-
00:06:25Damascus highway, fearing that the
00:06:29explosion or shrapnel from the explosion would reach
00:06:31the international highway because the Al-Eis area is
00:06:35completely adjacent to the Aleppo-Damascus highway. It is
00:06:39only five kilometers away. They
00:06:42cut off the road from the Khan
00:06:45the southern area, and also from
00:06:49the Ibleh University junction, and an
00:06:53internal security cordon was imposed
00:06:57explosion to prevent
00:07:00anyone from being harmed and to prevent
00:07:03residents from approaching the explosion site.
00:07:07I will return to you, Muhammad Nour, correspondent of Syria TV in
00:07:10Aleppo, for the latest developments
00:07:14and information you have. And I return to Brigadier General
00:07:17Muhammad Al-Baqqa'i. Brigadier General, so after
00:07:20the explosions stopped,
00:07:24the explosions returned in the same
00:07:28area. And before I went to the correspondent of Syria TV in
00:07:32Aleppo, you were saying something very important. Please
00:07:36security and military analysis of the area
00:07:40and comment on the return of the explosion. Professor
00:07:44Muhammad, Professor Hussam, I
00:07:47believe that there is a squadron of F-15
00:07:50aircraft that carry
00:07:52missiles with a range of 150 to 200
00:07:56kilometers, air-to-ground missiles of high explosive
00:07:59type, Sparrow. These missiles
00:08:02are launched from a distance of 200 kilometers.
00:08:05That means those located in the Tal Al-Eis area and
00:08:08its surroundings will not hear the sound
00:08:11of the aircraft or the engines of enemy aircraft,
00:08:15because the missiles are launched from a distance of 200
00:08:17kilometers. That means practically, when a missile
00:08:21is launched from a distance of 150 to 200
00:08:24kilometers, it will come silently, almost
00:08:27silently, until it reaches the depot or the
00:08:31coordinates drawn for it via
00:08:34GPS maps connected to satellites.
00:08:38I mean, I believe that there are enemy aircraft
00:08:41of the F-15 or F-16 type, most likely.
00:08:47Israel will not use stealth aircraft, the F-35,
00:08:50because their operating cost is high
00:08:53and their maintenance cost is high, and because in
00:08:55Syria there are no radars and there are no
00:08:58air defense systems that affect the F-15
00:09:02Eagle and the F-16 Falcon.
00:09:05These are the aircraft specifically designed
00:09:09to carry air-to-ground missiles. So, I
00:09:12adopt the hypothesis
00:09:16the air. It is the highest hypothesis available so
00:09:20far, because the explosions are successive. I mean,
00:09:24what is this shock that
00:09:27causes 10 depots to explode? As long as there are
00:09:3010 explosions, then there are 10
00:09:33depots close to each other and they are
00:09:37being bombed through a series of raids
00:09:40from a distance of 200 kilometers
00:09:43to these depots. This is what I wanted,
00:09:46what I analyzed and what I saw with the eye of a military
00:09:50security expert. And I specialize in air defense
00:09:53and aviation and air defense
00:09:56weapons. I firmly believe that the matter
00:09:59is a hostile bombing from a distance
00:10:02of 200 km or 150
00:10:05km, and this is within the range of Israeli
00:10:08hostile aircraft very comfortably
00:10:11for those aircraft. I mean, I mean, Brigadier
00:10:14General, you are now, according to
00:10:18the information and the scenes and what happened with the
00:10:21explosions in the Al-Eis area in the Aleppo countryside,
00:10:25you almost confirm that these explosions
00:10:29are not misuse or improper storage,
00:10:32if I may say so, and that they
00:10:35are targeted by drones from
00:10:38Israel. This is your analysis.
00:10:41I mean, perhaps not drones, Professor Hussam. I mean, drones from
00:10:45Israel are far away. A drone does not reach from
00:10:48Israel, from northern occupied Palestine, to Tal
00:10:52Al-Eis. This is the act of long-range
00:10:55fighter jets, F-16s or F-35s.
00:10:59Drones do not reach from northern
00:11:02occupied Palestine to Tal Al-Eis. Their range is
00:11:06beyond the operating range
00:11:06of drones.
00:11:10with its liberation. Yes. But before, before, before I
00:11:14return to you, I mean, viewers,
00:11:17we are watching these images also of the Aleppo-Damascus highway
00:11:21and the highway being cut off by internal security
00:11:25for the safety of civilians. I return to Muhammad Nour, correspondent
00:11:28of Syria TV in Aleppo. Muhammad,
00:11:32so what is the situation of the roads
00:11:35and traffic after these
00:11:38explosions?
00:11:41Yes, Hussam, I mean, I have just
00:11:45the residents that there are several casualties,
00:11:48and indeed, the Civil Defense
00:11:51transported several people. So far, we do not know the
00:11:55approximate number. There are several
00:11:58casualties who were transported from
00:12:03to the explosion site to hospitals in Aleppo
00:12:06for treatment. As for
00:12:10what you mentioned, I mean, traffic
00:12:13on the roads
00:12:15is strictly prohibited by the internal security from reaching
00:12:19the explosion site at a distance of 10 km,
00:12:23because even at this moment, as I speak to you,
00:12:27there is still flying
00:12:29shrapnel and missiles.
00:12:32It calmed down somewhat about a quarter of an hour ago,
00:12:35and then a huge and large explosion returned,
00:12:38and the fires are still burning and visible from
00:12:42the explosion site, and also the sounds of
00:12:45ammunition and successive small
00:12:52depot, can be heard by everyone now in
00:12:56Aleppo, but the internal security is still
00:12:59preventing access, for the safety of the residents, at a distance of
00:13:0310 km from approaching the
00:13:06explosion site. Muhammad, returning to
00:13:08your experience,
00:13:11just to confirm, there are several
00:13:14injuries recorded and a number of them have been transferred to hospitals
00:13:18for treatment.
00:13:21These injuries,
00:13:23the neighboring villages of Al-Eis town,
00:13:27due to flying shrapnel,
00:13:30and what is the extent of the population density in these
00:13:34villages? Yes, Hussam, I mean, one of the
00:13:38residents near the explosion site
00:13:41confirmed to me just now that there were several
00:13:45injuries and they were evacuated by the ambulance
00:13:49teams that headed to this area, but I do not know
00:13:52the exact or real number of injuries. There were several
00:13:56villages, but all these villages
00:14:00near the Al-Eis area, I mean, I am talking about
00:14:04and Al-Barqum and many villages, these
00:14:07villages were completely abandoned
00:14:10before the liberation, during the rule
00:14:14of the ousted Assad regime, and after the liberation,
00:14:17it was very difficult for the residents to return to
00:14:21their villages because these villages specifically, Hussam,
00:14:25suffered almost complete destruction. I mean,
00:14:28the battles of Al-Eis, and I am talking about them now,
00:14:32I recall them from 2016
00:14:35and 2017 in my mind when the fiercest
00:14:38battles took place in that area. Tal Al-Eis
00:14:42was a great struggle between the rebels
00:14:45and also the regime and Iranian militias.
00:14:48Therefore, all the surrounding villages
00:14:51in the Al-Eis area suffered great destruction.
00:14:55I estimate that the percentage of residents returning to
00:14:58each village does not exceed 20% because the houses
00:15:02are destroyed, and the infrastructure in these villages
00:15:05is destroyed. There are no basic necessities of
00:15:09life, but there is residency that we estimate at about 20 to 25%
00:15:13only of the total number of
00:15:17residents, I mean, the number of each village according to
00:15:21its houses and homes where
00:15:25the residents are supposed to be. Yes, stay with me, Muhammad Nour. I will return to you
00:15:28for the latest developments and information you have. Brigadier General
00:15:32Fayez Al-Asmar joins us. Welcome, Brigadier General. What is
00:15:35your reading of this, these explosions, and this
00:15:39major explosion that
00:15:42is still occurring in the weapons
00:15:45depots at one of the army sites,
00:15:49according to a statement by SANA news agency?
00:15:51Greetings, brother Hussam. It is painful,
00:15:55brother Hussam, that four explosions
00:15:58occur within less than a month, and they cause
00:16:01casualties, whether they are civilian
00:16:04or military. This is truly shameful from
00:16:08a military perspective. It is shameful.
00:16:11It is unreasonable to speculate whether it was
00:16:13Israel or certain militias or so-and-so
00:16:17or improper storage or anything else.
00:16:20It is true that Israel has destroyed 80% of our
00:16:23capabilities, but we still have
00:16:26anti-aircraft 57mm cannons
00:16:30and 13.5mm anti-aircraft guns around the weapons
00:16:33depots, whether there are drones or not.
00:16:37We certainly still have radars that detect
00:16:41targets violating Syrian borders. But to speculate
00:16:44and keep saying an Israeli aircraft and a drone
00:16:48that doesn't reach. No, drones reach. They reach Deir
00:16:52ez-Zor and they reach Turkey. I don't know who
00:16:55your guest was who was with us and says that drones don't reach
00:16:59the Al-Eis area, and it is 300 km away. No, there are drones
00:17:02at 1 km. Israel has these, and this
00:17:06is a given. I want to enter into speculation.
00:17:09Brother Hussam, what are the reasons? What are the reasons, according to
00:17:13your analysis? From a military analysis, there are several
00:17:17reasons. There are several reasons.
00:17:24You have many security
00:17:26challenges. Israel has
00:17:30into the Syrian state, from QSD, the PKK have an interest.
00:17:34The Hajjari militias have an interest. The remnants have an interest.
00:17:36And all of these have and can
00:17:39acquire drones.
00:17:44The second matter is to scrutinize the security backgrounds of the
00:17:48officials responsible for the depots. The most important thing, unfortunately, brother Hussam, these
00:17:52repeated explosions in army depots must
00:17:55be investigated for their causes, their effects, and who benefits from them,
00:17:58how and why they occur. Sufficient professional investigations
00:18:02must be carried out to determine their backgrounds. There must
00:18:05be no complacency in punishing those who are negligent, careless,
00:18:08or complicit, regardless of their
00:18:11This is certainly why investigations are absent and not
00:18:15published in such cases.
00:18:18I am not a responsible official in the state to
00:18:21say why. Exactly, brother Hussam, there
00:18:25must be academic
00:18:28dealing with weapons depots. You
00:18:32know, the reasons are many. The reasons are many,
00:18:35and you know now
00:18:38the lack of, I mean, a fighter responsible for a weapons depot. We have
00:18:42armament officers. We have many.
00:18:45Certainly, the reasons are many. I cannot
00:18:48list them all for you, but every small and large detail must
00:18:52be scrutinized. Investigations should not pass lightly.
00:18:56Thorough scrutiny. Perhaps there are security
00:19:00breaches in army sectors and depots. The lurking
00:19:03enemies are many. Perhaps an improvised explosive
00:19:06device. It was delivered to army depots
00:19:09and explosions are occurring successively in the Sermada depot
00:19:13and the Dumair and Ayyash depots and Tal Al-Eis. I mean,
00:19:16it is suspicious, strange, and astonishing that four weapons depots within
00:19:20less than three weeks kill 100 people and
00:19:23we are silent or guessing. It is unacceptable. This is not
00:19:27possible. There must be investigation committees. I mean, we
00:19:30must know who is the officer responsible for our depots.
00:19:34Who are the soldiers in the warehouses?
00:19:41be academics. So there is a lot
00:19:45to be done. The necessary conditions for depots, my brother, their
00:19:48distance from civilians, their distance from high voltage lines and networks,
00:19:52high and good ventilation, which
00:19:55I, as an officer, have studied for 45
00:19:59years, that the conditions I must set for a weapons depot are good
00:20:02ventilation. If it is air-conditioned, it is better. The doors
00:20:06must open outwards, not inwards. Even the electrical
00:20:10switch must not be inside the depot. It must be outside
00:20:13the depot. Many people do not
00:20:16with a lack of experience with ammunition
00:20:21It is painful. I am speaking from my heart. It is unacceptable
00:20:24that we have four explosions. My brother, I have missiles.
00:20:28I remove the fuses, the fuses that are
00:20:30in their front, and the detonators
00:20:34from the weapons depots. Why do I put the depots
00:20:38next to each other, 20 depots next to each other? There
00:20:41should be 100 meters, 200 meters, 500 meters, 1000 meters between
00:20:45each depot so that there is no chain explosion. If
00:20:48one depot explodes, it triggers all the depots behind it.
00:20:52It is impossible for an explosion to occur, my brother
00:20:54Hussam. Let me tell you, as a military man, it is impossible
00:20:58unless the shells are armed. "Armed" means
00:21:01that the fuses are attached to them. The missile has
00:21:04its fuse, and the RPG
00:21:06shells have their fuses,
00:21:08and the warheads and the armed MD missiles, all
00:21:13must, and it is part of the storekeeper's duties and the duties
00:21:17of the armament administration when storing weapons, to separate
00:21:21their armaments. And I mean the igniter that causes
00:21:24the spark, which is at the front of the shells, and put
00:21:28it in separate depots, and the missiles separately.
00:21:31It is unacceptable that they are stored while
00:21:35armed, with the slightest spark or the slightest friction. I mean, you
00:21:38know they must be raised as much as possible
00:21:41for the ammunition on wooden pallets, so that there
00:21:45are no friction areas, because friction and iron
00:21:49pallets, and dragging the iron on the ground, can generate
00:21:52a spark that leads to a catastrophe. Dealing with
00:21:56explosives and mines, the first
00:21:58mistake is the last mistake. You cannot correct your mistake.
00:22:02Those in charge of weapons depots and those dealing
00:22:06with explosives, mines, and war
00:22:10remnants must know this. It is unreasonable
00:22:14to ignore these matters. It is truly
00:22:17painful for me that
00:22:20today is the fourth explosion. It is unacceptable within
00:22:23three weeks, regardless of the reason. I mean,
00:22:27regardless, it might be targeting, and I told you,
00:22:30the lurking enemies are many. The elements who
00:22:32do not want integration from QSD, perhaps the remnants, perhaps
00:22:36even Hezbollah. I mean, I can guess,
00:22:40but it's not logical for me to be a sovereign state and not know
00:22:44if a drone entered my airspace or not.
00:22:47Then, at 5 km or
00:22:5010 km from the main weapons depots,
00:22:54are there any anti-aircraft guns? Don't we have
00:22:58missiles? Don't we have artillery? Don't we have thousands of 13.5mm
00:23:01anti-aircraft artillery?
00:23:05This is unacceptable. You tell me that drones don't reach
00:23:08and so on, or that Israel is behind it all.
00:23:12Anything is possible, brother Hussam. As a military man,
00:23:15when I take over the investigation, I will examine
00:23:19the direct and indirect causes and scrutinize
00:23:22every small and large detail. What
00:23:25did the head of the depot carry?
00:23:27Yes, Brigadier General,
00:23:29there must be records, my brother. Now I want to look at
00:23:33the records of the weapons depots, the weapons
00:23:36that came in and went out. There must be chaos, and the
00:23:39armament administration is responsible for it. The incoming
00:23:42weapons will be recorded according to
00:23:45certain documents, and their entry and exit
00:23:48times, and their details. Are these things available in
00:23:52our army depots so that we know what entered recently
00:23:56and why the explosion happened? These things are many.
00:24:00It is not just two words. And I know that the results of the investigation
00:24:04must be specialized investigation committees from the armament administration.
00:24:07Yes, Brigadier General, Brigadier General Fayez,
00:24:10I will return to you. You raised
00:24:15in fact. I will return to Brigadier General
00:24:18Muhammad Al-Baqqa'i. Brigadier General Muhammad Al-Baqqa'i,
00:24:21Brigadier General Fayez
00:24:24many points, and they are very important, in fact.
00:24:28What is your comment and your opinion
00:24:30on what Brigadier General
00:24:34Fayez Al-Asmar raised?
00:24:37Yes, good evening to you again, and to Brigadier
00:24:40General Fayez Al-Asmar. In all
00:24:43cases, Brigadier General said that we have air defense
00:24:47systems. Yes, we still have in the new Syrian
00:24:50army, from the remnants of the former regime,
00:24:54some anti-aircraft artillery battalions and some
00:24:57factions or some battalions of Cobra
00:25:01and Igla missiles. I mean, the 57
00:25:05mm anti-aircraft gun has a range of about 5.5
00:25:08km at an altitude of 5 km. The 23
00:25:12dual or quadruple
00:25:15gun, which has four 23mm guns, has a range
00:25:19of 2,300 meters, of course.
00:25:22Most of them are out of order for the first and second
00:25:27with the fourth system in the days, I mean, when there
00:25:30were no Russian experts maintaining them
00:25:33and Syrian experts as well. Most
00:25:36of their electronic devices were out of order. We used to fire with the fourth
00:25:40system at 2300 meters range.
00:25:43We have 14.5mm with a range of about 1500 to 2000
00:25:47meters. The Cobra has a range of about
00:25:503 km to the latest Igla types
00:25:54that we inherited from the defunct regime,
00:25:57about 5 km range. So, if we talk here about
00:26:01ranges between 5 km and 2
00:26:05km, the range of the air defense artillery that we have.
00:26:08The F-15 aircraft shell from a distance
00:26:12of 100 to 150 km. So, we
00:26:16served in Lebanon, and those who are watching us
00:26:19now, who served with me in Lebanon, Badil Sagir
00:26:23and Abdullah Al-Shalhoui and those officers who served
00:26:26with me, we fired
00:26:30Israeli aircraft
00:26:32in broad daylight, Professor Hussam, and Brigadier
00:26:35General, we didn't even hit
00:26:39a fly. So what about today when the attack
00:26:42is at night? Anti-aircraft artillery
00:26:45at night has zero effect because the 77mm
00:26:49gun is operated manually. Previously, we had
00:26:52the Faza device or the
00:26:56Sun 100 radar. We used to operate it sometimes
00:27:00with the radar, but due to frequent malfunctions,
00:27:03we used it manually. At night, anti-aircraft artillery
00:27:08So what about drones?
00:27:11a drone at night. Perhaps during the day,
00:27:15by chance, a barrage of fire
00:27:19in a certain way, but at night, it is impossible, Brigadier
00:27:22General. Anti-aircraft artillery is all we have
00:27:26today. We do not have air defense missiles
00:27:28like the Kubrads or the Olsa. All vehicles have been destroyed.
00:27:32Or the Pichu or the Fulka or
00:27:35the Pantsir. Brigadier General, please stay
00:27:39with me. We are showing you, viewers, initial
00:27:42images of the shrapnel that fell on
00:27:45one of the houses near the Al-Eis
00:27:49area in the southern Aleppo countryside. So these are
00:27:52the initial images of the shrapnel
00:27:56that fell in one of the houses,
00:27:59according to the information we received in the vicinity
00:28:03of the Al-Eis area. Brigadier
00:28:07General Muhammad Al-Baqqa'i,
00:28:08please.
00:28:11I mean, the effect of anti-aircraft artillery,
00:28:15at night. And also, the ranges
00:28:19we have, I mean, the maximum range we used in Lebanon, in the Lebanon
00:28:22war, we had the 57mm gun, and it was the peak in
00:28:26terms of air defense in Lebanon. It was forbidden
00:28:30to bring missiles into Lebanon,
00:28:34according to agreements between Hafez al-Assad and the Americans
00:28:38and the Israelis. Therefore,
00:28:41the shelling is carried out at night by F-15s,
00:28:44F-16s, or F-35s, and I rule out the use of F-35s
00:28:48because their cost is high. Their operation,
00:28:51I mean, the F-15 can shell with missiles from
00:28:55a range of 100 to 150 km
00:28:58at an altitude of 20 km or 15
00:29:02km. What will those cannons do
00:29:05that were manufactured at the end of World War
00:29:09II and we are still using them today?
00:29:12Syria needs advanced air defense systems
00:29:15that are deployed over long ranges
00:29:18from the depots, from military
00:29:21units, from Syria's borders to protect
00:29:25facilities. Also, there is another very important point:
00:29:29why are these depots close to each other?
00:29:33Why are igniter depots located next to missile
00:29:36depots or shell depots or
00:29:40mine warehouses. This all means
00:29:44either due to weakness or ignorance in storage
00:29:46operations. Thank you.
00:29:50Thank you, Brigadier General Muhammad Al-Bouqai, for
00:29:53your participation and for this
00:29:56military analysis. And joining you
00:29:59now, dear viewers, is Ibrahim Al-Khatib
00:30:03from Syria TV from the vicinity of the
00:30:07explosion in the Al-Eis area in the southern
00:30:10Aleppo countryside. What do you have,
00:30:19another explosion occurred, added to the series of explosions that took place in the Al-Eis
00:30:23area in the southern Aleppo countryside, which effectively shook
00:30:27the region. The echoes of these explosions reached the city of Aleppo and its
00:30:30countryside. We are now at the main entrance of the city of Al-Eis. A moment ago,
00:30:34a group of Syrian Civil Defense vehicles
00:30:38and also the Syrian Arab Red Crescent entered
00:30:41the site, and it seems there are indeed casualties
00:30:46site. In general, this area where the ammunition
00:30:49depot that exploded a moment ago is located, it seems
00:30:53that the shells and rockets that exploded and
00:30:56whose echoes were heard throughout Aleppo province, I mean,
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