"Between 6,000-7,000 Syrians were left behind in the Golan after the
occupation began, refusing Israeli citizenship and instead taking
permanent residency status, even after Israel annexed the territory in
1981."
The
minaret belonging to the ruined mosque of Sur’aman, a Circassian
village that was destroyed following Israel’s occupation of the Syrian
Golan in 1967, April 1, 2016. (Aiman Abu Jable/Jawlan.org)
