Thursday, 18 February, 2021 - 09:15
Members of a Syrian family riding a motorcycle in the rubble in the Yarmouk camp, south of Damascus (EPA) London- Ibrahim Hamidi
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for an emergency cabinet meeting on Tuesday evening, boosting expectations for another exchange deal sponsored by Russian President Vladimir Putin between Tel Aviv and Damascus.
The new deal will likely include freeing Israelis who were arrested in Syria’s southwestern Quneitra governorate and releasing information about the remains of Israeli soldiers in the war-torn Levantine country.
Tel Aviv, for its part, would release Syrians detained in its prisons.
It is worth noting that Moscow had sponsored a similar agreement between the two countries in 2019.