Israeli Forces Assassinate Former Prisoner in Golan Heights
Oct 17, 2021 – – IMEMC News
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Israeli forces targeted, shot and killed the former political prisoner Midhat Saleh al-Saleh while he was on his way home in the Golan Heights on Saturday.
Al-Saleh was the head of the Office of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights affairs in the Syrian Cabinet.
He was returning home to Ein al-Tina town, near the Israeli-occupied town of Majdal Shams, according to a report by the Syrian news agency Sana.
Al-Saleh survived numerous attempts by the Israeli military to assassinate him. In 2011, the Israeli military fired several times at his home while he was in it. Al-Saleh always said that the assassination attempts merely increased his determination to stay near Majdal Shams and maintain his steadfastness to remain on his land.
The Syrian Cabinet issued a statement condemning the extrajudicial assassination by Israeli forces, who were within Syrian territory when they carried out the assassination – constituting an act of war against Syria.
In their statement, the Syrian cabinet stressed that such terrorist acts will only increase the determination of the Syrian Arab people to continue resisting the occupier and liberating the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
The statement condemned the Israeli military for their “cowardly criminal act”, affirming that it is not unusual for the “criminal Israeli occupation” to target the Syrians living in Golan Heights.
“The cabinet offers its deepest and sincerest condolences to the Syrian people and to the family and relatives of the martyr, asking God to have mercy upon him ” the statement said. (...)