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In 2021, Israel vowed to double the number of Jewish settlers in the Golan Heights within five years, approving 7,300 housing units in the area to bring an additional 23,000 settlers.
On Sunday his cabinet approved Mr Netanyahu’s $11m (£8.7m) plan to double the population in the Golan Heights, where around 50,000 people live on the side occupied by Israel.
There are more than 30 Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights, which are home to an estimated 20,000 people. They are considered illegal under international law, which Israel disputes.
The Heights receive significantly more precipitation than the surrounding, lower-elevation areas. The occupied sector of the Golan Heights provides or controls a substantial portion of the water in the Jordan River watershed, which in turn provides a portion of Israel's water supply. The Golan Heights supplies 15% of Israel's water. [280]
Historical borders and boundaries of the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights are a rocky plateau in the Levant region of Western Asia that was captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War. The international community, with the exception of Israel and the United States, considers the Golan Heights to be Syrian territory held by Israel ...
Before the Six-Day War and Yom Kippur War, the Golan Heights comprised 312 inhabited areas, including 2 towns, 163 villages, and 108 farms. [1] In 1966, the Syrian population of the Golan Heights was estimated at 147,613. [2] Israel seized about 70% of the Golan Heights in the closing stages of the Six-Day War. [3]
Israel occupied the Golan Heights during the 1967 Mideast War and later annexed the roughly 460-square-mile area in 1981 in a unilateral decision that was not recognized by the international ...
On March 25, 2019, the United States officially recognized the Golan Heights as being under the sovereignty of Israel.Signed into effect by the Trump administration, the U.S. presidential proclamation marked the first instance of any country recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights; [1] the territory is viewed as part of Syria under international law, though it has been under an ...