US military attacks food convoy in Syria, report reveals

The US military has attacked a food convoy in eastern Syria over allegations that the trucks were carrying weapons, a report has revealed.

Tasnim news agency said on Thursday that it obtained footage of the attack that took place in Syria’s eastern city of Al Bukamal near the border with Iraq.

According to the report, the US had claimed that the trucks were carrying weapons, but the footage refuted the claim.

The video showed passers-by unloading a truck, with Tasnim saying that the vehicle’s driver allowed residents to unload it as he became sure that it was impossible to transfer the food to the central and western parts of Syria.

The report didn’t specify the exact time of the attack, but Reuters on Monday cited an Iraqi border official as saying that unidentified aircraft targeted a 10-truck truck convoy that crossed from Iraq to Syria on Sunday night.

The attack is seen as a US attempt to disrupt imports from Iraq as another way to bring Syrians under pressure, and as a way to get revenge on the Syrian nation amid the US inability to prevent attacks on its bases in Syria.

The strikes came amid rising anti-US sentiment over Washington’s firm support for the Israeli onslaught against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, which has martyred more than 9,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

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