A member of Hamas, the militant Palestinian organisation, survived an apparent assassination attempt yesterday when his car blew up in the Syrian capital, Damascus, a Palestinian source said. A Syrian official described the explosion, which injured a passerby and damaged several buildings in the Mezzeh district, as “subversive action against Palestinian brothers in Syria”. The interior minister, Ghazi Kenaan, told Syrian television a bomb under the seat of the vehicle exploded minutes after the Palestinian driver and his wife stepped out for a dental appointment. “The entity behind it is the Mossad – collaborators with the Mossad or the Mossad in particular,” he said. Full Story