Israel’s Druze Community Steadfastly Defends Jewish State Against Hamas

One 35-year-old from northern Israel has been treating injured soldiers on the battlefield for the past two months. ‘I will do whatever it takes to help our soldiers,’ he says.

Via IDF
An IDF Druze doctor treats a young Gazan. Via IDF

Since the beginning of the war, seven Israeli Defense Forces soldiers of the Druze community have fallen while battling Hamas terrorists. With a population of 150,000 in Israel, the Druze are an Arab minority who adhere to an esoteric branch of Shiite Islam and who have served in the IDF since the establishment of the Jewish state. 

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