Israel has recovered the body of a US-born Israeli soldier missing since a 1982 tank battle against Syrian forces, the military said.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.JERUSALEM — Israel has recovered the body of a U.S.-born Israeli soldier missing since a 1982 tank battle against Syrian forces in a case vexing the nation ever since, the military said on Wednesday.
"The body has now been in Israel for a few days," military spokesman Jonathan Conricus told journalists, saying it was identified by DNA and flown in by El Al Israel Airlines.The spokesman declined to say how or where the body of Baumel, a tank crewman and sergeant, was recovered. In 2018, Russia said its troops in Syria had been trying to locate the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in previous conflicts.
In 2016, in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Russia returned an Israeli tank captured by Syria at Sultan Yacoub and transferred to a Russian museum. Israel hoped forensic tests might determine if Baumel was killed outright or died under other circumstances, Conricus said.
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