The London-based Al-Rai Al-Yaum newspaper reported that the Russian army had searched the bones of the Israeli spy in the cemetery in the Al-Yarmouk camp in Damascus.
Israeli spy Eli Cohen
A few days ago, the Russian army searched for the remains of Israeli spy Eli Cohen in the cemetery in the Al Yarmouk refugee camp in the capital, Damascus, the Arab newspaper Al Rai al-Yaum, which is published in London, reported today.
No confirmation from another source was received for the report.
According to the report, which the newspaper claims comes from a senior official in the Assad regime, Russia and Syria have recently stepped up efforts, under Israeli pressure, to conduct searches for the spy who was executed in Damascus in the 1960s.
According to the report, the Russians are making great efforts to locate Cohen's remains and are putting pressure on members of the Assad regime to yield information regarding his burial place.
However, the paper claimed, Cohen's burial place is apparently unknown to regime officials themselves, as the remains were transferred under the regime of former Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad, and all senior officials involved in the transfer of the dead died.
The newspaper also reported that the searches, which were conducted in the cemetery in the al-Yarmouk refugee camp, a crowded neighborhood populated mainly by Palestinians, infuriated Palestinian terrorist organizations in the country.
The organizations claim that this is a desecration of the martyrs' honor by non-Muslim soldiers.
This is the second time this month that Russian military searches of the refugee camp cemetery have been reported.
The searches come against the backdrop of a Russian-mediated prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Syria, which enabled the release of a young Israeli woman who crossed the border into Quneitra.
Earlier this month, the Russian television network RT revealed a documentary in which Eli Cohen was apparently seen wandering near his apartment in the Syrian capital Damascus.
The documentation is from the same year that Cohen was exposed by Syrian intelligence.
The short video was revealed in a movie that was owned by a Russian military attaché who was serving in Syria at the time.
It is not clear whether the documentation is related to Cohen's follow-up or whether it is a coincidence.
