فاس نيوز ميديا جريدة الكترونية جهوية تعنى بشؤون و أخبار جهة فاس مكناس – متجددة على مدار الساعة
Occupied Jerusalem – The Israeli government announced on Sunday that the Mossad, its foreign intelligence service, had managed to obtain the complete official Syrian archive related to its renowned spy in Syria, Eli Cohen, with the help of an unidentified foreign intelligence agency.
Eli Cohen is considered one of the Mossad’s most successful spies, having managed to infiltrate the highest Syrian political and military echelons in the 1960s. He was arrested in January 1965 and publicly executed on May 18 of the same year in Damascus.
According to a statement issued by the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the operation resulted in the recovery of approximately 2,500 documents, photographs, and personal items associated with Cohen, which had been kept for decades in the secret archives of the Syrian security services.
Among the recovered items are: the keys to his apartment in Damascus, forged passports, personal letters addressed to his family, and his final letter (will) written in his own handwriting before his execution.
Netanyahu symbolically handed over several of these items to Nadia Cohen, the widow of the celebrated spy who is considered a national hero in Israel, during a ceremony held on Sunday.
The Mossad claims that the documents also contain secret instructions given to Cohen to gather intelligence on Syrian military bases, particularly in the strategic Quneitra region, near the Golan Heights – which Israel has illegally occupied since the 1967 war.
This new Israeli intelligence operation occurs within a volatile geopolitical context, marked by the ongoing weakening of Syria and the de facto expansion of the Israeli military presence beyond the ceasefire lines established in 1974.
Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war and the collapse of the central regime, Israel has intensified its airstrikes on Syrian territory, regularly targeting military infrastructure, weapons depots, and Syrian forces, occasionally resulting in civilian casualties.
Some observers view this operation as a political communication maneuver by Netanyahu, against a domestic backdrop characterized by sharp social tensions and increasing polarization.
Others condemn the increasing normalization of Israeli espionage and interventionism in Arab territories, often lauded as patriotic achievements in Tel Aviv, but viewed elsewhere as blatant violations of international law and state sovereignty. They also question the cooperation of the new regime, which is moving towards political normalization with its former arch-enemy following the Trump-Al-Sharaa meeting in Saudi Arabia, with what it has always described as the “Zionist entity.”
