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‘Like a Dream’: Druze Reunited Across Golan Heights Buffer Zone
GOLAN HEIGHTS, JUL 17 – Dozens of Druze families reunited across the Golan Heights ceasefire line after over 50 years of separation caused by war and occupation, amid escalating violence in Syria's Sweida province.
- On Wednesday, Druze from Israel crossed the usually closed Golan Heights border into Syria amid a ceasefire following deadly violence in Syria's Sweida province.
- The crossing followed days of sectarian clashes that killed hundreds after regime forces withdrew and violent disputes erupted between Bedouin and Druze residents.
- Dozens of Druze families reunified near the border, with some traveling six kilometers to the village of Hader to meet relatives and express hopes for lasting peace.
- Intisar Mahmud denounced the violence as savage, expressing shock that such cruelty was inflicted on innocent people, and urged the region to unite closely, like the digits of a single hand.
- These events highlight strong Druze ties split by Israel's 1967 occupation of the Golan Heights, the Syrian civil war, and Israel's complex military and political role in the area.
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'Like a dream': Druze reunited across Golan Heights buffer zone
Dozens of Druze crowded the Israeli-controlled side of the armistice line in the occupied Golan Heights on Thursday, hoping to catch a glimpse of relatives on the Syrian-held side who might try to cross the barbed-wire frontier. Young men drove around the area near the de facto border, waving the Druze flag with its five colourful stripes representing the pillars of their Druze faith, an esoteric offshoot of Shiite Islam.
‘Like a dream’: Druze reunited across Golan Heights buffer zone
Dozens of Druze crowded the Israeli-controlled side of the armistice line in the occupied Golan Heights on Thursday, hoping to catch a glimpse of relatives on the Syrian-held side who might try to cross the barbed-wire frontier. Young men drove around the area near the de facto border, waving the Druze flag with its five
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