US is leading efforts to contain escalation in hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel after deadly Golan Heights strikeDruze leaders in the annexed Golan Heights have distanced themselves from Israeli threats to retaliate against Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, who Israel blamed for a deadly rocket strike on a Druze Arab town in the territory, the AFP reports.Most of Majdal Shams’s around 11,000 mainly Druze residents still identify as Syrian more than half a century after Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria and later annexed it in a move not recognised by the international community. Continue reading…
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Author : Sammy Gecsoyler
Publish date : 2024-07-30 08:40:00
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