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RESIDENTS of the occupied Golan Heights staged a general strike today in protest at Israel’s annexation of the territory and its administration of local elections.
The strike was observed in the villages of Majdal Shams, Boqatha, Mas’ada, and Ain Qania, where there were large anti-Israeli protests throughout October as many people pledged their allegiance to their “homeland of Syria.”
Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed the region in 1981, though Israeli sovereignty has never been recognised internationally.
VIJAY PRASHAD looks at the web of militias and drug-trafficking gangs that emerged in the Sweida region through the Syrian civil war, and how they relate to recent clashes and Israel’s intervention
