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Israeli minister calls for killing Bashar al-Assad
Israeli Construction Minister, retired major general, former commander of the southern military region of the Israeli army, Yoav Galant, called for the assassination of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“In Syria, today there is a situation where people are being killed, chemical weapons are being used against them, and the last thing we learned about is that the bodies of the dead are being burned. We have not seen anything like this in the world for the last 70 years,” said Galant, speaking at a security conference in Israel.
Who exactly should kill the Syrian president, Galant did not specify. The Israeli government did not comment on the minister's remarks.
“In my opinion, the time has come to eliminate Assad,” Galant said.
- On May 15, US Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East Stuart Jones announced that a crematorium had been built in the Saydnaya military prison near Damascus, in which the bodies of the dead were burned. Thus, the Syrian government is allegedly trying to hide the scale of war crimes. According to Jones, between 50 and 80 people are executed daily in the prison, including civilians.
- Syria has repeatedly denied accusations of killing civilians.
- Israel avoids active participation in the Syrian conflict, but periodically strikes at convoys delivering weapons from Syria to Lebanon - Hezbollah militants. The bombings are carried out mainly on targets in southern Syria.
- Israel has repeatedly called on the United States to strike at the nuclear facilities of Iran, Syria's main ally. The Israeli government was strongly opposed to the deal on the Iranian nuclear program, concluded in 2015. This deal allowed Iran to continue its nuclear research.