TEL AVIV (Agencies): Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday announced plans of expanding Israel’s settlement in the occupied Golan Heights with a multimillion dollar expansion that will further strengthen the country’s hold on the territory that was seized from Syria over 50 years ago.
“This is our moment. This is the moment of the Golan Heights,” Bennett said during a special cabinet meeting, reported The Associated Press. “After long and static years in terms of the scope of settlement, our goal today is to double settlement in the Golan Heights.”
Bennett said the move was prompted by former P-resident Trump formally re-cognizing the Golan Hei-ghts as Israeli territory in 2019 and President Biden subsequently indicating th-at there are no plans of ch-anging this recognition. T-he U.S. is currently the on-ly country in the world that recognizes the Golan Heig-hts as being part of Israel.
The Golan Heights were part of southwestern Syria until 1967 when it came under Israeli military occupation. Israel unilaterally annexed the area in 1981. Subsequent negotiations b-etween Israel and Syria h-ave broken down for nu-merous reasons.
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