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Druze children from Majdal Shams played with the Israeli national team in honour of the 12 who were murdered by a Hezbollah missile last July. Pic: Twitter/X @kann_news
August 27, 2025, 8:46 pm
Majdal Shams children honoured in football match with Israeli legends
A year after deadly Hezbollah attack on northern Druze town, families of the 12 victims meet sporting heroes
By Michelle Rosenberg
The damaged border fence in Majdal Shams several days after Israeli Druze breached it to reunite with family members in Syria, July 2025. (Deborah Danan)
July 24, 2025, 2:00 pm
Druze town where hundreds breached border with Syria mourns one tragedy while fearing another
SPECIAL REPORT: 'They cried, they hugged, and then they went back to opposite sides of the fence, in enemy states,' recalled a soldier who witnessed family reunions during the brief breach
By Deborah Danan (JTA)
Statue of Sultan Al-Atrash, a Druze icon and national hero, who led a revolt against French colonial rule in the village of Swuedia in southern Syria in 1925.
February 7, 2025, 10:06 am
SPECIAL REPORT: In identity-torn Golan Heights, Druze dream of peace with Syria
Jotam Confino discovers that the feeling of Syrian patriotism has been revived after the toppling of Bashar Al-Assad and the hope of a unified country
By Jotam Confino in the Golan Heights
(Top row, L-R) Ameer Rabeea Abu Saleh, 16, Iseel Nasha’at Ayoub, 12, Hazem Akram Abu Saleh, 15, Milad Muadad Alsha’ar, 10 (Middle row, L-R) Alma Ayman Fakher Eldin, 11, Naji Taher Alhalabi, 11, Johnny Wadeea Ibrahim, 13, Yazan Nayeif Abu Saleh, 12 (Bottom row, L-R) Fajer Laith Abu Saleh, 16, Vinees Adham Alsafadi, 11 Nathem Fakher Saeb, 16, who were killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on Majdal Shams on July 27, 2024
July 27, 2024, 9:58 pm
Thousands attend funerals of 12 youngsters killed in Hezbollah rocket attack
At least 34 casualties with varying degrees of injuries were evacuated to hospitals by Magen David Adom first responders and IDF helicopters.
By Jewish News Reporter
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