The occupied Syrian Golan (ST): Barbed wire and minefields kept Nawaf Masoud and his family in the occupied Syrian Golan for four decades, leaving life away from his family and land in the occupied Golan.
This story has been repeated from time to time among the families that have been separated by the occupation since the 1967 aggression which tore them apart and prevented communication.This story will only end with the end of the occupier.
Nawaf, who went to Damascus University at the end of the seventies of the last century with a scholarship from the founding leader Hafez al-Assad, has not returned to his hometown of Masada since then.He kept dreaming of its orchards and mounds but his dreams never materialized.He died yesterday without his brothers, friends and neighbors saying goodbye to him and giving him a last farewell look. His face is covered with the dust of the Golan, which he loved.
Nawaf was known for his consistent patriotic stances and insisted to build his house in the village of Ain al-Tineh to remain overlooking the occupied village of Majdal Shams and close to his land.
Emil Masoud, the nephew of the late Nawaf confirmed that the homeland, which embraced his uncle during many years, from a university student to a successful doctor, had great credit in his making and the stations that polished the life of the deceased, who remained committed to the dream of returning to his land in the occupied Golan.
The brother of the late Hayel Masoud said: It is the most difficult humanitarian situation that we face with the farewell of the closest people to us without being between his sons and his wife.
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