Damascus accuses Israel of assassinating Syrian official near Golan Heights

Israeli soldiers guard Syrian territory from Mount Bental in the Golan Heights (illustrative image).

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Syria accuses Israel of assassinating a government official on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.

He was reportedly shot dead by a "sniper" near his home, not far from the border with Israel. 

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With our correspondent in Jerusalem,

Michel Paul

Media in Israel cites anonymous military sources that the victim, Midhat Saleh, had close ties with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to establish military infrastructure along the border with Israel.

Twelve years in prison

A former Syrian parliamentarian and belonging to the Syrian Druze minority, he spent twelve years in Israeli prisons after joining a cell of the “Syrian Resistance Movement in the Golan” for using mines and other explosives with the intention of killing people. civilians and soldiers on the Israeli side of the border.

No official reaction in Israel

He was also arrested for the attempted kidnapping of an Israeli soldier.

For more than 20 years, he was the representative of the Golan Heights in the Syrian Parliament.

On the Israeli side, no official reaction, as is almost always the case in this kind of case.

In Israel, there are now fears of a warming at the border between the two countries.

See also: Israel and Syria exchanged prisoners under the auspices of Russia

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