Leaders of the Syrian Druze community in the Hader area of the  Golan Heights are calling to be annexed into the state of Israel, following the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.
Druze leaders said: “What is left for us is to be annexed to Israel,” as living under Israeli control would be “a much lesser evil than the evil coming our way.”  Many Druze people are afraid of what HTS, the Islamist group made up of former Al-Qaeda and ISIS operatives might do now that they have taken power in Syria, with many Druze concerned they:”might take our women, might take our daughters. They might take our houses. And we are with those who preserve our dignity.”

A Syrian independent journalist, Omar Alhariri, reported on a meeting of Druze leaders in Syria, writing on X: “The Druze people of the Hader area in the village of Jabal al-Sheikh, in a meeting of the city’s notables, asked the Israeli occupation forces to enter their area.”
“Accordingly, we call on the free sheikhs and notables of Sweida to issue a statement in response to the request of this small group and to reject the Israeli occupation. The people of Sweida are the foundation of the Druze community and the first free people, and no group has the right to abandon any part of free Syria. Let us not forget the baseness of the Israeli occupation in playing on the chord of persecution of minorities.”

Following the buffer zone created in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur war, many Druze people found themselves separated from their families on the opposite side of the border, with some in Israeli territory, and some in Syria.  The separation has led to anger and resentment amongst the Druze population.
{Matzav.com}