The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Mystery surrounds the party that assassinated the missiles fuel and development scientist Aziz Esber who is close to Bashar al-Assad, Hezbollah, and Iran

Hama Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the mystery still surrounds the party that carried out the assassination of one of the figures close to the leaders of Iran, the Lebanese Hezbollah, and the Syrian regime, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has been monitoring the ambiguity that still surrounds the party responsible for the assassination of the Syrian scientist, Aziz Esber, who worked in the development of defensive activities, the development of the missile weapons, and he is a scientist in missiles fuel with a high level of scientific competence and experience in the development of missile weapons, and the intersected sources confirmed that the assassination of Esber by a booby-trapped vehicle that killed him with his driver in Masyaf area in the western countryside of Hama yesterday night, Saturday the 4th of August 2018, they confirmed that he was a close person to the Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad, the Lebanese Hezbollah, and the Iranian leadership.

It worth mentioning that Aziz Esber was the director of the Center of the Scientific Research in Masyaf in the western countryside of Hama, where the Center witnessed several Israeli strikes, where the Syrian Observatory published on the 22nd of July 2018 that the Defense Laboratories in al-Zawi area north of Masyaf in the western countryside of Hama were targeted, which caused destruction in the area, and on the 7th of September 2017, the SOHR learned that the explosions that targeted the western countryside of Hama were caused by Israeli missile strikes, that targeted the northeast of Masyaf city located in Hama countryside. Cross sources confirmed to the SOHR that the shelling targeted a vanguard camp, a short and medium-range missile depot and a scientific research center where some of the regime’s allied militiamen, of non-Syrian nationalities, who are fighting in the regime’s side in Hama, were present. As a result, at least 7 members of the regime forces were killed and injured. Whether there are casualties among the regime’s allied militiamen is still unknown.