DAMASCUS, Medhat Saleh Al-Saleh, a former Syrian prisoner in Israeli jails, was announced dead on Saturday evening after being shot by Israeli occupation soldiers near Syria’s border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

The Damascus-based Sana Agency said Saleh was shot with gunfire by Israeli soldiers while he was in the way to his home in the village of Ain Eltinah, which is adjacent to the border with Golan Heights, and was announced dead some time later.

Al-Saleh is a former prisoner in Israeli jails who spent 12 years between 1985 and 1997 behind bars.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency