Another assassination
Assad-linked businessman killed in Israeli air strike in Syria
Baraa Katerji, a prominent businessman close to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has been reportedly assassinated in an Israeli air strike on Syrian soil.
The Reuters news agency cited three unnamed security sources as saying Katerji, who had been sanctioned by the United States and Saudi Arabia, was killed near the border with Lebanon.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also confirmed the news, saying he was “responsible for funding” a Hezbollah-linked group formed to attack the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
Footage online shows the vehicle that was believed to be carrying Katerji destroyed and on fire after the suspected Israeli air strike. Another unidentified person is believed to have been killed in the vehicle.
CNN jumps in on this one
Israeli airstrike kills businessman sanctioned by US for ISIS links, Syrian media reports
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/middleeast/israeli-airstrike-syrian-businessman-intl-latam/index.html
An Israeli airstrike near the Lebanese-Syrian border has killed a prominent Syrian businessman who was sanctioned by the United States, local media reported Monday.
Mohammad Baraa Qatarji died when the strike hit the car he was traveling in on the al-Saboura highway near Damascus, according to Syrian state-aligned newspaper al-Watan.
Qatarji had been sanctioned in 2018 by the US Treasury and was on the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list for facilitating “shipments of fuel and weapons to the Syrian regime.”
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