2024-07-29 23:05:00
Time.news – The attack was launched last Saturday in the Golan Heights claimed 12 victims among the Druze community, an ethnic and Arabic-speaking group with around one million followers, whose population is mainly found in Lebanon and Syria. Around 150 thousand live in Israel: 130 thousand in the areas of Mount Carmel and Galilee, while around 20 thousand Druze live in the Golan Heights.
If you are in between Druze of the Galilee and Mount Carmel there is no shortage of examples of integration and enlistment in the army and police, in the Golan most members of the community write Israel CITIZEN and insist on considering yourself Syrian. According to the reports of various media outlets around the world, none of the victims of the attack last Saturday had an Israeli passport, except for an identity card issued by the Jewish government for strange reasons. which has to do with the status of the region’s monuments.
Born in eleventh century Egypt, The Druze community stands out for one reviewing Islamic practices in forms that have more nowadays to do with Islam and with substantial closure to other religions. For the Druze it is indeed Both conversion and the possibility of mixed marriages are prohibited. The Druze of the Golan share the area with approximately 25 thousand Israelis who live in 30 settlements.
However, Israel plans to double the Jewish population in the region by building new settlements for settlers. The program was presented before the start of the war and was supposed to start in 2027, but the UN expressed its negative opinion. Among the reasons given by the United Nations are discriminatory policies that are implemented against the law Druze, who have suffered severe restrictions in the Golan in recent years linked to access to dry land and water reserves.
He objected treatment inequality, both in terms of taxation and regulations for the distribution of water resources, which have increased over the years under the control of settlers. This is one of the points that the Druze oppose as “Israeli colonial efforts”. Important in this case are the protests of 2018, when thousands of Druze protested against the package of laws presented by the Israeli parliament for fear that the discrimination suffered in the Golan would be legalized. The Druze are the ones who are concerned of the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel but above all the definition of the country as the “historic home of the Jews”; Only the latter are recognized as having the “right to self-determination”. Druze leaders stand publicly against a term that relegates them to second class citizens and does not mention equality and minority rights.
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