Israeli soldiers stand guard as Druze men demonstrate in solidarity with the Syrian Druze community, near the border barrier in the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on April 30, 2025.

The community mostly lives in the area of Suwayda, a city in an area called Jebel Druze or the Hauran. This area is located in southern Syria near the Jordanian border.

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Majdal Shams is a Druze town. Here is a quick look at the community at the centre of the attack: Who are the Druze? The Druze are an ethnoreligious minority that largely identifies as Arab and is ...

The Druze are a small, little-known community of approximately 1.5 million, two-thirds of whom are spread out in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, where their community numbers around 130,000 or roughly 1.4 ...

Members of Israel’s Druze community participate in a rally against the country’s new nation-state law in Tel Aviv on Saturday. (Sebastian Scheiner / Associated Press) ...

Israel says its recent strikes and incursions in Syria are to protect the Druze religious group. Some in the community welcome it, but some say they're being used to further Israel's political goals.

The Druze community is an essential part of the Israeli social fabric. Although we do not share the same religion, this commonality is a clear indication of the human values that we share.

But Majdal Shams is home to a community whose relationship with Israel is doubly complicated: Druze residents of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in 1967 and annexed in 1981.