ALBAWABA - Maher Assad, brother of Syrian President Bashar Assad, was reportedly transferred to Russia for treatment after allegedly being targeted and injured in an Israeli strike in Damascus, Syria.
Lebanese website Lebanon Debate reported on Sunday that news circulating the injury of Maher Assad, a Syrian general and commander of the Syrian Army's elite 4th Armoured Divisio, in an Israeli strike is "true".
No official Syrian reports were made to clarify or deny the injury of Syrian commander Maher Assad in an Israeli strike and that he is now in Russia to get medical treatment.
However, in February, a rumor spread rapidly online after a post on X was made by the famous Israeli journalist Edy Cohen claiming that Maher Assad, brother of Syrian President Bashar Assad, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on Damascus.
Choen claimed in his post that the bombing, which allegedly killed Maher Assad, targeted sites in the Damascus countryside, specifically the Dimas area, west of the capital, near the Syrian-Lebanese border, on early Saturday.
Following the rumor, which was widely spread online and was apparently deleted later on by Edy Cohen, a Syrian official made a statement denying the allegations that Maher Assad was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in Syria, Alarabyia reported citing RT.
Syrian MP Wael Melhem posted on his Facebook denying the allegations made about Maher Assad and stressing that Cohen’s post on X is completely false and baseless.
He wrote: "Major General Maher Assad is in good health and is at the helm of his work, praise be to God, and all the rumors circulating about him are completely false and baseless.
May God protect you, Sir Major General Maher."
