Arab media echoes Israeli news on plcae of Eli Cohen’s remains

The Arab media voiced good seductiveness in an disdainful news in Maariv’s weekend book about a locale of Israeli view Eli Cohen and a actions taken to locate him.

The news was published on a front page of a London-based Saudi journal Al-Sharq al-Awsat, that featured a headline: “The stays of a Cohen in a cavern in Qardaha.”

The news also perceived distinguished places in a media in Egypt and Sudan, that read: “Maariv suggested a funeral place of a Israeli view Eli Cohen.”

Several Arab media outlets entirely translated Maariv‘s article, with some of them also adding a interest of Cohen’s widow Nadia, who called on Syrian President Bashar Assad to uncover forgiveness and lapse her husband’s physique to Israel.

Additionally, a news was published by a Russian news group Sputnik.

In a essay published on Friday, an Arab source reported that “the physique of a Israeli view Eli Cohen is buried in a cavern on a towering nearby Qardaha, in Latakia district.”

According to a source, who spoke with a Syrian official, a Mossad carried out a diversion operation in 1977 on a Syrian-Jordanian border. Operatives were reportedly digging during a same time in Damascus, where a physique of Cohen, who was executed by unresolved in 1965, was buried.

After President Hafez Assad became wakeful of a operation, he systematic a physique to be eliminated to another stealing place.

“Three soldiers from a Presidential Guard were a ones who eliminated Cohen’s physique in a tip operation,” a source said. “Two of them have already died, and a third is coming a age of 80. As distant as a known, a new bid has been done to locate and brand Eli Cohen, though it is not transparent either a DNA representation was eliminated to see either it was a Israeli spy.”

The source estimated that a find of a physique of IDF infantryman Zacharia Baumel, who was killed in a initial Lebanon war, on a eve of a Israeli elections, behind a routine per Cohen’s remains, nonetheless it is not transparent either this will mistreat a lapse of Cohen’s body.

Cohen operated behind rivalry lines – substantiating tighten ties with a tip Syrian domestic and troops care – from 1962 until he was hanged roughly accurately 43 years ago on May 18, 1965. Cohen, who was famous in comprehension circles by a series 566, wrote in encrypted French and sent his messages around a little radio transmitter. Cohen’s transmissions were instrumental in assisting a IDF ready for a 1967 fight with Syria. He supposing information about a Syrian Air Force and troops positions on a Golan

The Israeli spy’s 84-year-old widow Nadia, told Maariv: “I am happy that Baumel’s physique was returned to his relatives and family after 37 years, and we do not consider this will impact a lapse of Eli’s body. They are apart stories.”

On a eve of a Passover holiday, Nadia Cohen conveyed a open and relocating summary to a stream Syrian president, Bashar Assad, by Maariv.

She called on him to denote compassion. “Syrian President Bashar Assad, greatfully recover Eli for burial,” she said. “If we have a sacrament and we trust in God, greatfully recover him.”

“Eli paid a cost a few decades ago, because keep his bones? [For] revenge? Pain? There is a lot of pain in your people, greatfully do [this] for me and my children – have compassion. If we do not forgive, it stays inside, we interest to we so that your heart will soften, recover your loathing and anger, and maybe we will find assent for your people and ours together… appreciate you, Bashar. Make a gesture.”

Both a Prime Minister’s Office and Russian officials denied reports final week that Cohen’s stays had been found, exhumed and were en-route to Israel.

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