Majdal Shams residents tell of scenes of horror after children who had gathered to play football were struck
he funeral lament rang out across Majdal Shams, from the centre of the town, from balconies and from rooftops. Thousands of mourners packed the narrow streets and squares, carrying small coffins covered in white shrouds to their final resting place.
Less than a day earlier, the town of squat white-painted houses and fruit trees in the occupied Golan Heights, became a flashpoint in an increasingly volatile regional conflict when a“We heard the siren and the strike was immediate. Our house shook from the impact,” said Tawfiq Sayed Ahmed, an insurance agent in Majdal Shams.Ahmed immediately thought of her three daughters, who loved to play at the football pitch, particularly on a warm weekend afternoon when it was packed with visitors.
The town is populated by members of the Druze sect and lies in a part of the mountainous area that was militarily occupied and later annexed by. The residents of Majdal Shams have grown familiar with grief: it is known for a remote hill that some used to shout to their family members in Syria on the other side of the valley., marked the gravest increase in tensions since the militia escalated rocket attacks last October in response to Israel’s assault on Gaza.
“She was just playing there,” said Ahmed of 13-year Alma. “She was like an angel, beautiful as sunlight. What did this girl do to deserve this horrific death?”
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