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The security forces of Syria’s new Islamist-led interim government have arrested two senior officials from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Palestinian media reported on April 22.
The officials were identified as Khaled Khaled, in charge of the Syrian arena in the PIJ, and Abu Ali Yasser, responsible for the group’s executive committee in Syria.
The arrests were made less than 48 hours after Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas made a visit to the Syrian capital, Damascus, where he met interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa.
Palestinian and Arab officials inside and outside Syria are reportedly making efforts to secure the release of the two PIJ officials.
The PIJ had close relations with the regime of former president Bahsar al-Assad. However, the group didn’t fight alongside his forces or provide any sort of military support. Thus, when the regime fell last December, the group didn’t leave the country.
Israel targeted the PIJ in Syria on multiple occasions, including a strike on March 13 that targeted the house of the group’s leader Ziyad al-Nakhalah in Damascus.
Earlier this month, a report by The Wall Street Journal revealed that the United States has asked the Syrian government to ban all Palestinian groups from operating inside the country and prevent them from raising funds there among other demands for easing sanctions.
The PIJ is the second largest group in the Gaza Strip, where Israel renewed its offensive last month, pushing the death toll on the Palestinian side from the heated war that broke out following the October 7 Hamas-led surprise attack of 2023 to over 51,000.
The arrest of the PIJ officials is likely an attempt by Syria’s Islamist rulers to appease the U.S. and Israel. This attempt will likely be met with even more demands from the two.
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it’s all totally orchestrated transparently. if you can’t see it you’re stupid.
they will destroy yemen as they destroyed syria. putin killed commander utkin, netanyahu killed commander nasrallah, and trump killed commander soleimani. now idf general ghassan alian controls the entire druze region in syria. he will declare himself king of the druze, and putler and jolana will kiss his hand.
syria has no government, it is a gang of thieves and terrorists. if the bandits were the government, they would have prevented ghassan alian from taking control of all the druze villages and towns. putin, in his evil khazarian corruption, supports this, which is why he allowed hts terrorists to drove on the roads and attacked damascus.
so the zio us puppets dancing like the puppetmasters pull the strings? no surprise. sadly i think syria is lost for a long time, because seems the sunni population majority support the islamists.
i dont think the sunni population supports them. they were installed by turkey usa and israel cooperating. it is a foreign invasion and take over. the average syrian might be happy that the war is over and hopes that he wont be murderd by jihadist gangs. but its not what the people wanted.