Islamic Jihad accuses Israel of assassinating leader in Syria
The Gaza-based group has accused Israel of killing one of its commanders in Syria after the man was shot dead in front of his home near the capital Damascus.
A Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander based in Syria was shot dead on Sunday in an attack the group blamed on Israel. The Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad’s military wing, said in a statement that Ali Ramzi al-Aswad was assassinated by “agents of the Zionist entity” in the Damascus countryside.
The Gaza-based group vowed to continue fighting Israel for its crimes against the Palestinian people. “The Quds Brigades will carry on its work, struggle and fight in all arenas to defend the holy land of Palestine and the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque,” the group added in its statement.
On Monday, the group posted photos of Aswad’s funeral procession on its website and said that a large crowd of Syrians and Palestinians had accompanied his body from a mosque in Damascus to his final resting place, which was not identified.
According to the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper, two unidentified men shot more than 30 rounds from machine guns at Aswad as he was getting in his car in front of his home in the Qudsaya suburb of Damascus. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
