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Separated for many years, Assad’s fall spurs hope for households cut up by Golan Heights buffer zone

WashingtonSeparated for many years, Assad’s fall spurs hope for households cut up by Golan Heights buffer zone

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By ELENA BECATOROS, Related Press

Revealed: December 19, 2024, 1:44pm

Soja Safadi, middle, along with her sisters, tries to see their different sister, Sawsan, who’s contained in the buffer zone close to the “Alpha Line” that separates the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights from Syria, within the city of Majdal Shams, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. (AP Photograph/Matias Delacroix)

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AP) — The 4 sisters gathered by the aspect of the street, craning their necks to see far past the razor wire-reinforced fence snaking throughout the mountain. One took off her jacket and waved it slowly above her head.

Within the distance, a tiny white speck waved frantically from the hillside.

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