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Druze In Golan Reject Israeli Threats To Retaliate For Rocket Strike

Druze pallbearers carry the coffin of Guevara Ibrahim, 11, one of 12 children killed in a rocket strike in the Druze Arab town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on Saturday (Credit: AFP)

Druze residents of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights distanced themselves Tuesday from Israeli threats to retaliate against Lebanon's Hezbollah group for a deadly rocket strike on a Druze Arab town in the territory.

Most of Majdal Shams's around 11,000 residents still identify as Syrian more than half a century after Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria and later annexed it in a move not recognised by the international community.

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