Mundo Safadi, a man in the thirties, crosses the newly opened fence by the Israeli military and embraces a group of women and men of various ages. In the middle of the crowd, there are scenes of joy and tears at noon on Wednesday. Munder caresses his sweaty face to try to overcome disbelief while they all make a family with one of the mobiles. “Twenty years, twenty years old!”, One of the women shouts when answering the question of how much they do not see each other. Mundo has just stepped on Majdal Shams, the town of Drusa population from 1967 by the Jewish state and separated by a metal strength of the Syrian territory under Damascus authority.
A few kilometers from where several thousand people from both sides are crowded, the conflict is intensified with an increase in. The authorities of the Jewish state indicate that they try to defend the minority Drusso, facing the new Syrian government that heads interim at Shara, the former and leading who led
Like the Safadi, many other Druss of either side have been seen again after the military controls at the head of a deployment of a hundred uniformed decided to open the gate to avoid major evils. The tension had been growing from mid -morning after several hundred people arrived from the Syrian side to the fence. The smoke boats thrown by the soldiers not only did not arrested the citizens, who continued to advance by raising Druse flags, but ended up causing several fires in the area. They threw air shots as a sign of rage.
Finally, a fire truck came and, to be able to quell the flames, the great gate cancela had to be opened. That was taken advantage of by hundreds of people to mix festively and without Israel’s security forces. The Drusa population under the administration of Israel is about 150,000 people and are exempt from going to the army, so there are very few who get ready.
After calming the waters, throughout the afternoon, dozens of young people from Majdal Shams managed to overcome the fences in several waves and began to run to the other side without paying attention to the call made by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu. Entrance The night showed a drip of people returning in both directions.
“My brothers, Druss citizens of Israel, the situation in [la provincia siria de] Sueida is very serious. (…) Israel’s army is operating there ” – the prime minister says in a statement -“ to save our Drusos brothers and eliminate the band bands. ”“ I only have a simple request to do: you are citizens of Israel. They do not cross the border, ”adds the president.
“Israel has to choose between helping the Druss or being with President Ahmed al Shara and the Islamic State,” says Daniel’s firm and angry tone, a 28 -year -old neighbor of Majdal Shams who, like the vast majority in the goal, except the Jewish settlers, does not feel Israeli. The young man, peeling a promontory in the middle of a tumult of people a few meters from the fence, regrets that the international community is bleaching the new Syrian leader and that, even. In addition to having met with Shara in a friendly way, Trump has raised the sanctions to the Damascus regime. But, at the same time, the American Republican leader is Netanyahu’s strongest ally.
Daniel emphasizes that Druss in Majdal Shams and other locations in the Golán Altos have always protested peacefully, but that can end. At that time, he takes out his mobile and shows a video supposedly of these days in Sueda in which he looks at a car passing several times on the bodies of two Druss in a street. He makes him outraged in Loop regardless of the crudeness of the scene. For this type of acts it is for what Daniel defends the bombings of the Israel Army on Sueda or Damascus. “We are a minority in danger. There are also our relatives,” he argues pointing to the other side of the fence. “
“I was born here and I have never been on the other side, but I don’t feel Syria or Israeli,” says Arish, a 40 -year -old woman who observes the busy day from the privileged box that is her house, a dozen meters of the fence. He acknowledges that he has never witnessed anything the same. Yes, he points out that sometimes neighbors come from either side to see, even separated by the gate. Next to her, her daughter Julie, 15, does not take away eye on the fire, races, screams, songs, claims …
The Golán highs controlled by Israel came to convene for this Wednesday a general strike that aimed to press so that the rights of their brothers on the other side are safeguarding. An assembly with local authorities tried in the morning of combining opinions and the way of acting in the midst of the conflict. It was not possible. Some defended go to press the fence, others advocated no more altering. On Tuesday afternoon around half a hundred people he already crossed the other side without the military preventing him, but they were all forced to return. Fayez Shoquer, 49, wants the population to move. “We have to cross and help our families in Sueda. They are massacrating them. We don’t know what is happening there,” he adds.
The tension has been increasing in the last hours since troops from the Syrian regime army entered the city of Sueida, about 100 kilometers from Majdal Shams, which has led Israel to make the decision to attack from the air. The Province of Sueida has been the scene in recent days of sectarian clashes – which have left almost 300 dead, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights – including Druss and members of Beduine tribes favorable to the Damascus government.
Minutes after having crossed towards lands under Israeli control, Mundo Safadi crosses next to the fence from which he arrived. He rides on his motorcycle while his relatives fire his arms to heaven with some tears shining on his face. They do not know how the war will end and if they will spend another 20 years again to hug again.
