by Neta Bar and Israel Hayom Staff
Journalist: "Your border is the last border we have left."
In a cross-border plea, 75 Syrian journalists on Wednesday asked Israel to help them flee the war-torn country.
The journalists, who are currently located
in areas still under rebel control on the Syrian Golan Heights, are
asking Israel for only one thing: to save them from the threat of being
imprisoned by Syrian President Bashar Assad's prisons.
The asylum request comes as Assad's forces
are on the brink of total victory in southern Syria. For years, the
journalists covered the bloody civil war from the rebels' side, and now
fear the regime will look to exact revenge.
"The path to Turkey is blocked, the border
crossing with Jordan was captured and they have no other way, aside from
the Israeli border, of escaping a fate of torture and death," said
Mordechai Kahana, a Jerusalem-born American-Israeli businessman and
founder of Amaliah, a humanitarian aid organization for the people of
Syria.
"Your border is the last border we have
left to escape. The danger is closer to us than ever," said one of the
journalists, who asked to remain anonymous. "We know you are a
democratic country."
Neta Bar and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/07/19/syrian-journalists-plead-with-israel-help-us-flee-from-assad/
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