Israel assassinated a Syrian official who had in the past served a 12-year stint in an Israeli prison, Syrian outlets reported today.
Several of the reports named the official as Midhat Saleh, a former member of the Syrian parliament, who was then put in charge of the Golan Heights portfolio in the government of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
He was jailed in connection with anti-Israeli terrorist activities and released in 1997.
The state-run SANA news agency alleged that he was killed in Ain al-Tineh, a village inside Syria, by sniper fire from the Israeli side of the Syrian border, while other reports cited an air or a drone strike.
The Syrian government denounced “this cowardly criminal act.”
Israeli media cited unnamed intelligence sources as saying that Saleh was a key figure in helping Hezbollah entrench its presence in the area.
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{Matzav.com}
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