Chief of the PLA, Major General Mohammed Tariq Khadraa, announced that the PLA is fighting in more than 15 locations in Daraa suburb, Sweida and Damascus, including Zabadani, Adra, Maliha, Jobar,Moadamieh, Darya, and Tel Kurd.
He revealed in a statement to Al-Watan newspaper affiliated to the Syrian regime “that, several months after the events in a number of Syrian cities and towns in 2011, he suggested to the Syrian leadership that the PLA should participate with the Syrian army in confronting terrorism,” where the Syrian leadership decided that the Liberation Army is to protect the important national installations in the vicinity of Damascus.
He also added that; “We secured thermal plant in Harran Awameed, Deir Ali, industrial area of Adra city, and the Free Zone and fuel warehouses, adding that with the increasing attacks on the headquarters of the army and his staff and military installations that were under the protection of the army, we were forced to transfer the headquarters to other places, and the PLA operations were expanded by participating in offensive operations on the fronts.”
Mr. Khadraa speech came after a number of activists and families of victims and recruits appeals for the Chief of the PLA, the PLO, and stakeholders not pushing their children in conflict in Syria, and not to send them to areas of tension, and to stop the shedding of the blood of Palestinian youth in the battle, noting that the Palestinian refugees in Syria are obligated to military service in the Palestinian Liberation Army. Anyone who refused to join will be vulnerable to prosecution and imprisonment, while many members and officers were split of the army and joined the opposition groups to fight against the Syian regime.
It is mentioned that the AGPS documented 149 PLA victims were killed during clashes with armed opposition groups in several parts of Syria since the start of the war events.