Watan-Israeli media revealed the escape of an official from the Assad regime to Israel and his subsequent arrest after crossing the border fence with the Golan Heights.
The occupation announced the arrest of a Syrian official in the Baath Party after he entered as a fugitive through the border in the Golan.
In a post on the X platform, the official Israeli broadcasting authority clarified that occupation forces arrested a suspect who crossed the border from Syrian territory into Israel.
They explained that the suspect is named Mutaawea Al-Sarhan, a leader and member of the Baath Party and a member of the reconciliation committee affiliated with the Bashar al-Assad regime.
The escape of an official from the Assad regime to Israel
The Assad regime official, Mutaawea
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Al-Sarhan, resides in the town of Al-Rafeed in Syrian Golan, adjacent to the border fence, and Israeli media noted that the occupation authorities are questioning him.
According to Maariv newspaper, Sarhan was arrested inside Syrian territory by Israeli forces in the village of Al-Rafeed in the Quneitra Governorate.
Reports, also mentioned by Israeli press, indicate that Sarhan fled to Israel across the border.
The “Al-Rafeed Today” Facebook account posted that Israel arrested the aforementioned Mutaawea Al-Sarhan on Wednesday morning from his home in Al-Mashidah Farm, affiliated with Al-Rafeed town in southern Quneitra countryside.
Escape or abduction?
The same page provided clarification that the Israeli occupation abducted Sarhan and then returned him through the United Nations forces, facing an unknown fate if arrested by the Assad regime.
The arrest of an official in the Syrian regime came less than one day after an Israeli airstrike on the Kafr Sousa neighborhood in central Damascus, which resulted in the death of two people.