(Zaman al-Wasl)- Activists said death of Abu Ja'far al-Homsi was due to myocardial infarction and not being assassinated on Thursday in northern Idlib province.
Ghaith Abu Ahmad, a member in the brigade's media office, told Zaman al-Wasl that the military commander of the Martyrs of Islam left Daraya suburbs near Damascus with his wife and children to the village of Ayn al-Zaraqa in Idlib’s countryside last Thursday. While he was swimming in the area behind Ayn al-Zaraqa, which is a water spring and a large lake, he suddenly suffered a cardiac infarction which led to his drowning.
The source added that al-Homsi was taken to Darkosh hospital, but he had already died indicating that the hospital did not give his family a medical report.
Abu Ahmad explained that members of al-Homsi’s family were with him swimming and no one approached him prior to his suffering the cardiac infarction. He denied the rumors that al-Homsi was assassinated by regime aids. Abu Ahmad added, “Abu Jafar had no enemies, and everyone from Daraya respected him.”
Our source continued that he accompanied al-Homsi in many battles until the day before he died when Abu Ahmad recorded a video of al-Homsi for Qasyoun Agency.
Al-Homsi was born in 1979 in Homs citadel in Homs’ western countryside.
He dissented from the regime army prior to the Daraya massacre where he was a volunteer holding the rank of warrant officer 2nd class. Al-Homsi is the fourth child among his brothers to die as one brother drowned in Tartus, a second brother died in regime detention centers, and a third brother, the former commander of the Brigade’s operations, was martyred in Daraya at the beginning of the campaign in 2013.
Al-Homsi took the position of operation commander after his brothers’ death.
Abu Ahmad said of al-Homsi, “he used to stand in the front line of the fighters, and he was distinguished by his planning during battles.” He continued, “he used to strengthen the men’s determination and push them, and he was not afraid of the tanks although most of his injuries are from tank rocket shrapnel.” Abu Ahmad told of how al-Homsi was besieged by two tanks and a minesweeper with some fighters inside a trench. Abu Ahmad confirms that the minesweeper was above the trench directly and al-Homsi and the men with him burnt it with Molotov cocktails and “Abu Jafar continued to resist in the trench without support and besieged from the morning until sunset.”
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