From NPR.

After the fall of the Assad regime in Syria last December, Israel started striking Syrian military installations and also seized a U.N.-patrolled buffer zone on Syrian territory and began to slowly expand it into Syrian villages. Israel said that all of this was to protect itself from attacks similar to the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023. But now the Israeli government says that the airstrikes are in the name of protecting the Syrian Druze community. NPR’s Hadeel Al-Shalchi reports from Shouting Hill, where Druze families on both the Israeli and Syrian sides come to communicate with their families across the border.