For the first time in 50 years, a Syrian Druze delegation visits Israel (photos and video) – the seventh day

Agence France Presse and the Israeli Broadcasting Authority said on Friday that a delegation of Syrian clerics entered Israel for a special visit to the grave of the Prophet Shuaib in the lower Galilee amid tight security measures.

About sixty Druze clerics went on Friday morning from the Quneitra Governorate in southern Syria, towards Israel, on a visit that was considered the first in about 50 years when a group of them came immediately after the 1973 war.

The visit includes a visit to the shrine of “Shuaib”, which has a special place at the Druze on Friday afternoon, and the delegation will participate on Saturday morning in the opening of a religious headquarters in the village of Al -Buqeei in northern Israel, according to the invitation program directed by Sheikh Tarif.
The visit came in response to an invitation by the spiritual leader of the Druze Almohad community in Israel, Sheikh Mowaffaq Tarif, and it was permeated by a religious shrine visit, which sparked criticism of a number of Druze, especially as it comes after Israeli statements that have pledged to protect the Druze of Syria.

About sixty Druze clerics gathered on Friday morning at the outskirts of the village of Hadar, located in the buffer zone in the Golan Heights, which occupies Israel, most of which are, in the sight of the Israeli soldiers stationed at updated points on the outskirts of the village.

On the other hand, a source told “Agence France Presse” that the Israeli occupation army prevented the delegation from carrying mobile phones with them or the journalists approaching them during their gathering.

For their part, the people of the town of attended a statement of condemnation of the visit, in which they said: “We are the families and families of the village of Hadr, who expressed our strong condemnation of the visit by some sheikhs to occupied Palestine at the invitation of some of the pro -occupation parties inside the Palestinian.”

They added, “Israel, which was never eager for the rights of minorities, is taking advantage of this religious visit as a tool to plant the division in the national class and seeks to use the Druze community as a defensive line to achieve its expansionary interests in southern Syria.”
They continued: “We will not forget the crimes, violations and crimes committed by the occupying state against our people in the Golan, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Therefore, we confirm that these sheikhs represent only themselves, and we stress that our only affiliation with the community of the father of the father,” according to “Lebanese Al -Nahar.”

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