Palestinian militant group: commander assassinated in Syria

DAMASCUS (AP) — A commander within the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad was killed in Syria on Sunday in what it described as an assassination by Israeli brokers.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the army wing of the Islamic Jihad group, stated in a press release that Ali Ramzi al-Aswad, 31, was killed Sunday morning within the Damascus countryside in a “cowardly assassination with bullets bearing the fingerprints of the Zionist enemy,” referring to Israel.

There was no rapid assertion from Israel on Sunday’s alleged assassination.

The Islamic Jihad stated in a press release Aswad’s household had been displaced from town of Haifa in 1948 and settled within the refugee camps in Syria, the place he joined the group as a younger man.

In 2019, Israeli warplanes fired missiles on the dwelling of Akram al-Ajouri, a member of Islamic Jihad’s management residing in exile. Ajouri was not harmed, however his son was reportedly killed within the assault.

Final month, airstrikes on residential areas in Damascus that Syrian officers stated killed a minimum of 5 folks had been attributed to Israel. An Islamic Jihad official warned Israel in a press release that there could be “a decisive response immediately to any assassination try (on) the leaders of the resistance.”

Israel has carried out a whole lot of strikes on targets inside government-controlled components of Syria lately, together with assaults on the Damascus and Aleppo airports, nevertheless it hardly ever acknowledges or discusses the operations.