Mourning Their Losses, Israel’s Druze Community Prepares To Protest Inequality Israel’s Druze feel they are treated like Jews when it comes to serving their country but like Arabs when it comes to exercising their rights By Giorgia Valente/The Media Line As Israel’s Druze community planned upcoming protests against the inequality they feel in Israeli society, […]
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Mourning Their Losses, Israel’s Druze Community Prepares To Protest Inequality
Israel’s Druze feel they are treated like Jews when it comes to serving their country but like Arabs when it comes to exercising their rights
By Giorgia Valente/The Media Line
As Israel’s Druze community planned upcoming protests against the inequality they feel in Israeli society, they held a tree-planting ceremony on July 2 at Ahihud Forest in northern Israel to remember the nine Druze soldiers who have fallen in the current Iron Swords war.
Members of Israel’s Druze and Circassian communities recently announced a weeklong series of protests against what they term government discrimination affecting their towns and villages. The protests, including a significant gathering in Jerusalem on July 8, are a response to perceived neglect and marginalization by state authorities.
PHOTO – A tree is planted in Ahihud Forest on July 2, 2024 in memory of Maj. Jamal Abbas, a company commander in the Paratroopers Brigade who was killed on Nov. 18, 2023 in Sheikh Ijlin, in the Gaza Strip. (Giorgia Valente/The Media Line)