Leaders of the Druze community in the Syrian Golan Heights of Hader have reached the conclusion that they would like their communities to be annexed to Israel following the collapse of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
"What is left for us is to be annexed to Israel," they said, adding that annexation to Israel is "a much lesser evil than the evil coming our way."
The second, greater evil, they said, "might take our women, might take our daughters. They might take our houses. And we are with those who preserve our dignity." Omar Alhariri, an independent journalist and human rights activist from Syria, responded to these reports, writing on X: "The Druze people of the Hader area in the village of Jabal al-Sheikh, in a meeting of the city’s notables, asked the Israeli occupation forces to enter their area." (Read More)
