Golan rallies in support of Assad

Hundreds of Druze living in the occupied Golan Heights have rallied in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Waving Syrian flags and portraits of Assad, about 500 marched in the zionist israeli-controlled Majdal Shams village on Friday and chanted slogans in support of the Syrian president, AFP reported.

“We love you, Bashar … We are with the Syrian army,” the demonstrators chanted while holding banners reading: “We are for a dialogue aimed at national unity.”

The rally came two days after more than 1,000 Syrian Druze, living under Israeli occupation, took to the streets in the Golan village of Boqata to back Bashar al-Assad.

“We are supporting President Bashar al-Assad,” said one demonstrator, adding, “We say to those who are against him: ‘No’.”

zionist israel captured the strategic Golan Heights from Syria during the Six Day War in 1967 and annexed the Druze-inhabited territory in 1981 in a move which has not been recognized by the international community.

zionist israeli settlement activities began in the Golan soon after the war. Currently, there about more than 20,000 settlers living in the Golan Heights.

An estimated 18,000 Druze live in Golan, most of whom refuse to take up zionist israeli nationality.

Damascus wants a full zionist israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 border as the price for any peace deal with Tel Aviv, but zionist israeli officials say the plateau is too strategically important to be returned. The Golan Heights gives zionist israel access to the Sea of Galilee, zionist israel’s main source of fresh water.