An alleged member of the Druze neighborhood stated it could be the “lesser evil,” fearing future jihadist rule after the autumn of Bashar Assad
The southern Syrian village of Hader has reportedly requested to be included within the Israeli-occupied a part of the Golan Heights, based on the Occasions of Israel. The outlet cited an unverified video the place a member of the Druze neighborhood expressed issues over the way forward for his folks.
Bashar Assad’s authorities fell final week after opposition forces, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadists, launched a shock offensive throughout Syria and took management of its main cities, together with the capital Damascus. The erstwhile president has since resigned and sought asylum together with his household in Russia.
In a video posted to X on Friday that options captions in English, a Hader resident claiming to be a consultant of the Druze folks, an esoteric ethnoreligious group, urged a big crowd to contemplate what their future will likely be like. The village is situated inside the buffer zone between Israel and Syria, which IDF troops entered final week.
“If now we have to decide on, we are going to select the lesser evil,” he stated. “And even when it’s thought of evil to ask to be annexed to the [Israeli] Golan, it’s a a lot lesser evil than the evil coming our approach,” the person added, apparently referring to the HTS, which was previously often called the Al Nusra entrance – an offshoot of Al Qaeda in Syria.
“That evil may take our girls, may take our daughters, they may take our homes,” he stated, pleading for the Syrian Druze to be free of the “injustice and oppression” that had been imposed on them prior to now, and could possibly be imposed once more by Islamist insurgent teams.
“We have now requested to be annexed to the Golan to protect our dignity” the person, who claimed to talk on behalf of the Druze neighborhood throughout the encompassing space of Quneitra Governorate, stated. “We ask within the title of all the encompassing space to affix our folks within the Golan, and to dwell with freedom and dignity like our individuals are dwelling [in Israel].
Round 48% of Syria’s Druze resided within the Suwayda Governorate some 90 kilometers from the border with Israel previous to the civil battle, the Occasions of Israel reported citing a 2010 census. Since then, nonetheless, it’s believed that lots of them have fled the area for safer components of the nation.
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