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(Redirected from Hadar, Syria) Druze village in Syria Town in Quneitra
Hader حضرHadar
Town
Hader viewed from a heightHader viewed from a height
Coordinates: 33°16′46″N 35°49′49″E / 33.27944°N 35.83028°E / 33.27944; 35.83028
GovernorateQuneitra
DistrictQuneitra
SubdistrictKhan Arnabah
ControlIsrael Israel
Population
 • Total4,819
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Hader (also spelt Hadar; Arabic: حضر) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Khan Arnabah Subdistrict of the Quneitra Governorate. It is in the portion of the governorate that is under de jure Syrian control, although it is currently occupied by the Israeli Defence Forces as a result of Operation Bashan Arrow. The town is located just outside the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force Zone. Nearby localities include Beit Jinn to the northeast, Harfa to the east, Jubata al-Khashab to the south, Majdal Shams in the Israeli Golan Heights to the west and Shebaa in Lebanon to the northwest.

Population

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Hader had a population of 4,819 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly from the Druze community.

History

In the 1895–1896 conflict between the Druze of Hauran and the Ottoman government and their local allies, Hader and nearby Hina were assaulted by Circassians and Bedouin fighters from the Golan allied with the Ottomans. This followed a Druze attack which devastated 12 villages in the Hauran plain near al-Shaykh Maskin. Following the attack on Hader, Druze fighters from Majdal Shams retaliated by attacking the Circassian-inhabited village of Mansura, which in turn led to Ottoman and Circassian raids against the Druze villages in the Golan.

In mid-June 2015, during the Quneitra offensive of the Syrian Civil War, rebel forces reportedly surrounded the village, which was pro-Assad. However, their motives are disputed.

Even though the surrounding localities were under rebel control, the town remained under government control for the entire duration of the civil war.

On 13 March 2019, Israel accused senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative Ali Musa Daqduq of having been sent to Syria and founding a network of "a few" Syrian operatives manning outposts in Hader and collecting intelligence against Israeli targets.

In December 2024, amid the collapse of Ba'athist Syria and an Israeli invasion, a community leader in Hader called for the town to be annexed by Israel, arguing that this would be the "lesser evil" compared to the new Syrian government.

References

  1. ^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Quneitra Governorate.
  2. Firro, p. 232.
  3. Assaf Uni (18 June 2015). "Inside Israel's Secret War in Syria". Newsweek. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  4. Lazar Berman (3 November 2014). "IDF says will attack Syrian Druze town if troops threatened". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  5. Maayan Lubell (19 June 2015). "Druze in Israeli-held Golan fear for Syrian brethren". Reuters. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  6. Forces, Israel Defense (2019-03-12). "Previously classified intelligence now cleared for publication: Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior operative in the Lebanon-based terrorist organization Hezbollah, has been operating a new terror cell in... Syria" (Tweet). Retrieved 2019-03-13 – via Twitter.
  7. "Fearing Islamist rebels, Syrian Druze village calls to be annexed to Israel, calling it the 'lesser evil'". Times of Israel. 13 December 2024. Retrieved 13 December 2024.

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