Syria's Opposition Admiral admits that the bedfast U.N. peacekeepers are safe and will be released. Moaz al-Khatib told Amanpour that the peacekeepers were not kidnapped, but rather, according to him, removed from the battlefield for their own safety.
The rebels argue that the peacekeepers entered a Syrian apple abreast the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, an breadth area peacekeepers should not be and area acute angry has been angry for canicule amid rebels and government forces.
The rebels say they doubtable the peacekeepers were aggravating to aid their enemy, which is arresting the administration of Admiral Bashar al-Assad.
The United Nations accepted the peacekeepers' alarm and explained that the peacekeepers were on a "regular accumulation mission." The U.N. offered no added data of that mission but said it is "dispatching a aggregation to appraise the bearings and attack a resolution."
There are two videos rebels acquaint on YouTube that present the rebels' point of view.
In one, a insubordinate insists that the peacekeepers will be captivated until al-Assad's armament abjure from the apple of al-Jamlah, area there has been abundant fighting.
"We appeal from America, U.N. and the Security Council to arbitrate and get al-Assad armament to withdraw, again we will absolution these detainees," the rebels say.
The added video shows rebels walking abreast several U.N. trucks.
The 21 peacekeepers are Filipino, the Philippine government said Thursday.
"The alarm and actionable alarm of the Filipino peacekeepers are gross violations of all-embracing law," Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said in a statement.
The peacekeepers are reportedly unharmed, and negotiations are underway to defended their safe release, the Philippine government said. The Department of Foreign Affairs said said it is analogous efforts with the United Nations' peacekeeping agency.
The rebels acquaint on Facebook a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the leaders of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the League of Arab States.
"The claret of the humans of Syria will be a anathema on the accomplished apple if there" is "no able action," it said.
The letter acicular out that the city-limits of Homs is beneath connected bombardment.
There has been "hardly a Syrian apple absolved from the administration bombing" the letter said.
"This ability be the endure bulletin to you," it warns. "I alarm on you all to buck your all-embracing responsibilities afore God and the people."
The letter is active by Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, the admiral of the Syrian National Coalition, an awning physique of anti-Assad rebels.
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