MIDEAST : Mothers day

Familes of Syrian students from the Syrian Golan Heights gathered Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2007 in the Majdal mountainous to congratulate their mothers in Syrian Side on the Mother's Day. The students, who were offered free university education in Damascus, used loudspeakers to talk to their relatives on the other side of the frontier across the 'Shouting Valley,' a 300-yard-wide (300-meter-wide) buffer zone that divides the Golan Heights, the dominating plateau that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. Their relatives gathered in the village of Majdel Shams, which is set right up against the Ein al-Tineh, to reciprocate greetings