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Mr Netanyahu's office said the government approved a plan to double the population on the Israeli-held Golan Heights. The government "unanimously approved" the 40 million shekel (€10.6m ...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the overthrowing of the Assad regime in Syria is fuelling the need to bolster Israeli settlements in the occupied Golan Heights. Israel seized ...

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The Israeli cabinet has now unanimously agreed to Mr Netanyahu’s $11m (£8.7m) plan to double the population of Golan Heights due to potential security risk in the aftermath of Bashar al-Assad’s ouster ...

The Golan Heights was part of Syria until 1967, when Israel captured most of the plateau in the Six-Day War, also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, occupying it and annexing it unilaterally in 1981.

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New York Times reporters entering Syria on Monday via Lebanon saw abandoned Syrian military tanks, empty checkpoints and ripped-up posters of Mr. al-Assad ... in the Golan Heights, which Israel ...

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JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Dec 9 that the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel ... Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem, Mr Netanyahu thanked US President ...

Mr. Katz, the defense minister, said Israel’s move into the buffer zone on the Golan Heights aimed to prevent militants from amassing near Israel, as had happened in Gaza and Lebanon.

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