New Syrian regime hands over body of Israeli soldier
SANAA, May 12 (YPA) – The Israeli occupation announced on Sunday that the body of Israeli soldier Tzvi Feldman, who had been declared missing after the Battle of Sultan Yacoub of Lebanon in 1982, was recovered from Syria territory.
The occupation’s Prime Minister Netanyahu said that soldier was killed during the First Lebanon War and had been missing for decades, according to Israel’s Channel 12.
He indicated that the soldier’s body was found “in a secret and complex operation” carried out by the army and Mossad in the heart of Syria, without specifying the location.
Other sources denied the Israeli account of the discovery of the body of the soldier, Feldman, accusing directly al-Julani of handing over the body to the occupation.
The story was based on a “leaked” document circulated by several Syrian websites close to the new regime, issued by Major General Ali Douba, head of the Military Intelligence Division, and addressed to the former Syrian president, Hafez al-Assad.
The document clearly revealed precise information about the burial site of the Israeli soldiers, detailing the names of the individuals responsible for the cemetery and those with detailed knowledge of the site, most notably Ahmed Jibril, Omar al-Shehab, and Talal Naji, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), who was arrested in recent days by the authorities of the new Syrian regime.
Sources explained that the new regime, headed by Ahmed al-Sharaa, known Abu Mohammad al-Julani, arrested Talal Naji, deputy secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was what, according to the Hebrew press, helped locate the burial site of soldier Zvi Feldman, who was captured during the Battle of Sultan Yacoub forty years ago.
Feldman’s body was recently handed over to the occupation army free of charge after pressure was put on the detainee to reveal the location of the cemetery. The cemetery was eventually found and the soldier’s remains were exhumed.
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