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The name "Majdal Shams" originates from Aramaic, meaning: "tower of sun" in reference (possibly) to the town's elevation. [8] Another hypothesis suggests that the town was originally called Majdal al-Sham (Majdal of Damascus) to distinguish it from the towns of similar names, like Majdal Zun and Majdal Salem in Southern Lebanon, al-Majdal on the Mediterranean Coast and al-Majdal on the Sea of ...
Majdal was granted to Israel in the 1949 Armistice Agreements. Re-population of the recently vacated Arab dwellings by Jews had been official policy since at least December 1948, but the process began slowly. [6] The Israeli national plan of June 1949 designated al-Majdal as the site for a regional urban center of 20,000 people. [6]
The Majdal Shams attack, took place on 27 July 2024, when a rocket hit a football pitch in Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. [a] The resulting blast killed 12 Syrian children belonging to the Druze community [1] [2] [3] and injured at least 42 others, [5] [6] with most of the victims being between the ages of 10 and 16.
For nearly a month, people in Lebanon and Israel braced for a wider war. A deadly rocket strike from Lebanon last month on the town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights was ...
The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) is a human services organization committed to the development of the Arab American community. ACCESS helps low-income families, as well as newly arrived immigrants adapt to life in the United States.
As the Israel-Hamas war goes on, a group of Arab and Jewish Israelis have formed an unofficial civil guard in an attempt to prevent unrest in the city of Jaffa.
During the 1996 Israeli seventeen day bombardment of south Lebanon the Nepalese UNIFIL position in Majdal Selem was hit by eight shells and extensively damaged. [10] On 5 December 1997, three civilians were killed by a roadside bomb. The bomb was believed to have been planted by an Israeli commando special unit.
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) -A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people including children on Saturday, Israeli authorities said, blaming Hezbollah ...