Israel Matzav

'Palestinian' journalist missing in Syria

A 'Palestinian' journalist is missing in Syria and his family fears that he has been kidnapped by Syrian security forces.

The family and friends of the missing journalist, who is believed to have been arrested by the Syrian security authorities or a radical Palestinian group, have set up an account on Facebook asking for help to find him.

Palestinians expressed fear that he was being held by one of Syria’s intelligence branches or a radical Palestinian group based in Damascus.

Over the past few decades, many Palestinians who had been reported missing after entering Syria were later discovered in Syrian or Palestinian detention centers and prisons.

The journalist, Muheeb al-Nawathy, has not been in touch with his family since January 5. His family said that before that date he had been phoning them every day from Syria.

His family said that he traveled to Syria on December 28 to carry out “political research.”

Nawathy has been living in Norway since he fled the Gaza Strip after the Hamas takeover in 2007.

He had been arrested by Israeli security forces several times during the first intifada for security-related offenses.

Nawathy, a father of six, is a member of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, which has expressed deep concern over his disappearance.

If anyone happens to see him... maybe they'll find the missing IDF soldiers too.

Labels: Bashar al-Assad, kidnapping, Muheeb al-Nawathy, Syria

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:36 PM