Emotional reunions as Druze cross Israel-Syria fence

“I feel like I’m dreaming,” Rima Hassoun said as she stood at the fence separating Israel from Syria in the occupied Golan Heights. A resident of Majdal Shams, a Druze town on the Israeli side of the fence, Hassoun had grown up in Damascus before moving across the border to live with her husband when they married. When +972 Magazine met her on Thursday morning, she had just seen her younger brother for the first time since 1999.

The previous day, more than…