Deadly rocket strike puts religious minority at centre of escalating conflict between Israel and Hizbollah
The rocket attack that killed 12 young Druze in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights has thrust the religious minority to the forefront of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hizbollah. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid tribute to the community that has long played an outsized role in the Israeli military, as he visited the scene of Saturday’s attack, which has been blamed on the Lebanese militant group. “The Druze community has paid a very heavy price in the war,” he said on Monday.
But since the outbreak of the 2011 Syrian civil war, and the weakening of Syrian Druzes’ loyalties to President Bashar al-Assad, that position has begun to shift. “The old generation, divided from their families in Syria, still live with the mentality that they’re under Syrian rule,” explained Safady. “The younger generation has undergone a form of ‘Israelisation’. They’ve studied in the Israeli education system the local politics are now integrated into the Israeli system.
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