Syria: Russia digs up graves in refugee camp in search of dead Israeli spy Eli Cohen The three-week excavation of Yarmouk cemetery is part of a search for the former Mossad agent, according to report Damaged graves in the Yarmouk refugee camp cemetery following a bomb attack by Syrian government forces in Damascus, 11 April 2015 (Rami al-Sayed/AFP) By Published date: 23 February 2021 16:57 UTC | Last update: 1 month 1 week ago Russian forces in Syria have spent the past three weeks excavating a cemetery in a refugee camp in search of the body of a prominent former Israeli spy, according to the Syrian Organisation for Human Rights (SOHR).