Celebrating the October 6 war, Syrian Golan citizens cling fast to homeland

Commemorating the silver jubilee of the October War of 1973, the Syrian people in the occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday held a mass rally in Majdal Shams. People attending the rally stressed their support for their homeland in confrontation of Turkish threats.

Speeches made during the rally highlighted the "meanings" of the October "liberation" war, its "positive results at different levels," stressing that in the war the Arab combatants regained self-defiance and destroyed the Israeli Army.

They also condemned Israeli acts against the Arabs in the Golan Heights, Palestine and Lebanon.

Following the rally, the participants organized a march in which they paraded pictures of President al-Assad, the Syrian flag and placards "glorifying the war and expressing loyalty to their president, Hafez al-Assad.