{"id":13145,"date":"2025-03-15T17:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T17:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/syrian-druse-pilgrims-pay-rare-visit-to-israel\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T17:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T17:54:28","slug":"syrian-druse-pilgrims-pay-rare-visit-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/syrian-druse-pilgrims-pay-rare-visit-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Druse Pilgrims Pay Rare Visit to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A delegation of Syrian Druse made a rare trip to Israel this week and visited a shrine revered by the faith as Israel seeks to extend its influence inside Syria after the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Both Israel and Syria have sizable communities of Druse \u2014 an Arabic-speaking religious minority scattered across the Levant region. But with the two countries formally at war for decades, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/12\/world\/middleeast\/syira-druse-diplomacy.html\" title=\"\">Syrian Druse<\/a> were generally unable to enter Israel to visit sites holy to their faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif, a Druse leader in Israel who helped organize the two-day visit, said roughly 100 people arrived on Friday in a convoy from Syrian territory. They visited the Tomb of the Prophet Shuaib in the northern Galilee region of Israel, a site holy to the sect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAfter being cut off for decades, to see our people arriving in our country \u2014 it\u2019s a moment of great joy,\u201d said Mr. Tarif, adding that he knew most of the visitors only from phone conversations because of the great difficulty of traveling between the two countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Oren Marmorstein, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OrenMarmorstein\/status\/1900824520149066187\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> on social media that the pilgrimage was the first of its kind in decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Israel, many Druse hold Israeli passports, serve in the national military and are viewed as loyal \u201cbrothers in arms.\u201d Other Druse who live in the Golan Heights, territory that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed, still consider themselves Syrian and tend to have Israeli residency cards, but not citizenship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the collapse of Mr. al-Assad\u2019s dictatorship in early December, Israel has launched a barrage of airstrikes on Syria, which it says are aimed at preventing hostile forces from massing near its borders. But the moves have prompted fears among Syrians of a protracted Israeli occupation of Syrian territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the same time, Israel has reached out to the Syrian Druse, many of whom live in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/02\/world\/middleeast\/syria-druse-clash.html\" title=\"\">villages and cities in southern Syria<\/a>, as potential partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Druse militias in Syria are under pressure to integrate into a unified national military that the new president is trying to establish. Israeli officials have suggested that Israel could intervene on behalf of the Druse, including militarily, if they came under threat from government forces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David Mencer, an Israeli government spokesman, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hasbara.gpolive.co.il\/pages\/preview.php?ref=327&amp;search=&amp;order_by=relevance&amp;offset=0&amp;restypes=&amp;archive=&amp;per_page=48&amp;default_sort_direction=DESC&amp;sort=DESC&amp;context=Root&amp;k=163a5af8bb&amp;curpos=&amp;ext=jpg&amp;\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> this week that Israel was \u201cprepared to defend, if needed, the Druse population in Syria from the forces of the new regime.\u201d The major Syrian Druse militias flatly rejected the offer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, said this week that Israel was preparing to allow some Syrian Druse into Israeli-controlled territory to work in the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Druse belong to a sect that broke away from Islam roughly 1,000 years ago, ultimately becoming a separate religion. Its members, now scattered between Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and northern Israel, have often found themselves on opposing sides of conflicts in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the fall of Mr. al-Assad, Israeli troops have marched into Syrian territory, seizing a 155-square-mile buffer zone and bombarding targets across the country. Israeli officials have denounced the new government in Damascus for its Islamist leadership and said that their forces will remain in Syrian territory for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The new Syrian president, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/world\/middleeast\/syria-president-ahmed-al-shara.html\" title=\"\">Ahmed al-Shara<\/a>, has called on the international community to pressure Israel to withdraw. He has also maintained that his government poses no threat to its neighbors or to religious minorities like the Druse, because Syrians are weary of war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/15\/world\/middleeast\/syria-druse-visit-israel.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation of Syrian Druse made a rare trip to 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