The Israel Defense Forces’ 474th “Golan” Territorial Brigade carried out a series of overnight raids in southern Syria last week to locate weapons and arrest suspects, the military said on Sunday.

During simultaneous searches at several sites in the area, IDF troops discovered arms caches containing RPG missiles, explosive devices, Kalashnikov rifles and large quantities of ammunition, it stated.

All weapons and other combat equipment were seized by the army.

In addition, following intelligence gathered in recent weeks, the soldiers, in cooperation with Human Intelligence Unit 504 field investigators, arrested several suspects for questioning, it said.

Last week, the IDF said that troops of the 810th Mountain Brigade had seized more than 300 weapons and arrested suspects of involvement

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