page_title: Abdul Baset al-Sarout
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Abdul Baset al-Sarout / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Syrian rebel supporters demonstrate after they held a prayer for killed rebel leader Abdul Baset al-Sarout at the Fatih Mosque in Istanbul.
context_page_description: Abdul Baset al-Sarout was a Syrian association football goalkeeper. He represented his country at the Syria U17 and Syria U20 level. He was also a prominent rebel figure in the Syrian Civil War.
context_section_description: He died on 8 June 2019, during the 2019 Northwestern Syria offensive, after engaging in combat with the Syrian Army at Tell Malah village. According to a Jayish al-Izza spokesperson, as well as the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, he died in a Turkish hospital in Reyhanlı, Hatay from wounds sustained two days prior, when he was struck by Syrian Army artillery, after his unit clashed with the army in northern Hama. He was taken a day later to the village of Al-Dana in rebel-held northwestern Syria, to be buried with one of his deceased brothers.
caption: Syrian rebel supporters demonstrate after they held a prayer for Sarout at the Fatih Mosque in Istanbul, 9 June 2019, which drew criticism from the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).[20]
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