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Family separation

Families in the Occupied Syrian Golan peer through binoculars and talk on the phone to the relatives across the fortified ceasefire line who had been forcibly transferred or displaced to the rest of Syrian following the Israeli occupation.

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Church of Banias

The church was damaged during the 1967 war and afterwards abandoned. Before the 1967 uprooting and expulsion of the local Syrian population, only 6% of the Golan population was Druze. Like Greater Syria, the Golan was somewhat ethnically and religiously diverse. The population comprised of Arabs, Circassians, Daghestanis, Chechens, Turkmen, Armenians and Kurds. Today approximately 25,000 Syrians remain in the Occupied Syrian Golan (mostly Druze with a Christian and Muslim minority).

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