Leo Correa \/ AP<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\nA delegation of sheikhs Druzes de Syria crossed, Friday, March 14, the ceasefire line on the Golanin for a pilgrimage in Israel, journalists from the France-Presse (AFP) found; A first for Syrian Druze for fifty years.<\/p>\n
On board three buses escorted by Israeli military vehicles, the religious, a few dozen, crossed the line in Majdal Shams shortly before 10:30 a.m. in the Golan’s part of Israel.<\/p>\n
According to a source in the Druze community, they must go to the north of Israel, to Julis, to meet the religious leader of the Druzes of Israel, Cheikh Mowafaq Price, before going to pray near Tiberias to the site of the tomb of Nabi Choua\u00efb, the highest holy place in Israel. Nabi (“prophet” in Arabic) Choua\u00efb is one of the prophets mentioned in the Koran, whose figure is associated with J\u00e9thro, the stepfather of Moses, in the biblical story.<\/p>\n
“Strong opposition” within the Syrian community<\/h2>\n In Majdal Shams, visitors were welcomed by a hundred druze who sang welcome songs, tapping in their hands. Among them, several young boys waved druze flags (green, red, yellow, blue, white) and men in traditional black suit wore the white and red cap typical of the Druze.<\/p>\n Children Druzes, in Majdal Shams (Golan Plateau), March 14, 2025. John Wessels \/ AFP<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n“We waited for this moment for many years to meet them, it’s a strong moment in emotions”<\/em>told AFP Jamal Ayoub, 61, a farmer from Galileo (northern Israel) to accommodate an uncle in the sheikh delegation.<\/p>\nHowever, this visit met “Strong opposition”<\/em> Within the Syrian community, according to a Druze source. The Druzes, followers of an esoteric religion from Islam, are divided between Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, the Golan Plateau and Syria where they are concentrated in the province of Souweida (South), close to Israel.<\/p>\nAs soon as the power of Bashar al-Assad on December 8, I Israel sent troops in a demilitarized buffer area of \u200b\u200bthe Golan, in the southwest of Syria, on the edge of this set of this set of this set of this set of 1967 since the war of 1967, and annexed in 1981.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> In southern Syria, the population is mobilizing against the Israeli “security zone” project <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n The world with AFP<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n Reuse this content <\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\nTm-En-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Druzes religious expect near the border that buses carrying members of the Syrian Druze community pass from Syria to the village of Majdal Shams, on the Golan Plateau controlled by Israel on March 14, 2025. Leo Correa \/ AP A delegation of sheikhs Druzes de Syria crossed, Friday, March 14, the ceasefire line on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5694,402,23658,21259,3096,592,15128,6047],"class_list":["post-106143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-ceasefire","tag-cross","tag-druzes","tag-golan","tag-israel","tag-line","tag-pilgrimage","tag-syrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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