Golan Heights

Gaza-Israel hostilities flare up for second straight day with rocket attacks, air strikes across border

Two other Palestinians protesting near the frontier were also killed by Israeli forces.

Benjamin Netanyahu intends to name Golan Heights settlement after Donald Trump to appreciate US recognition of Israel's sovereignty

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that he intends to name a new settlement in the Golden heights after US President Donald Trump. The move would be in appreciation of Trump’s recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

Syria requests for UN Security Council meeting on US decsion to recoginise Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights

Syria asked the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to hold an urgent meeting on the US decision to recognize the Golan Heights as Israeli territory. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Monday in which the United States recognized Israel's annexation of the strategic plateau, despite UN resolutions that call for Israel's withdrawal from the Golan.

Lebanon says US handover of Golan Heights to Israel violates international law, undermines prospects for peace

Lebanon on Monday said a US decision to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights violates international law and undermines the prospects for peace. US President Donald Trump on Monday signed a proclamation recognising Israeli sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights, a border area seized from Syria in 1967.

Israel strikes Gaza after rare Palestinian rocket attack near Tel Aviv; Hamas' interior security office hit in bombing

Israel launched strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza on Monday hours after a rocket from the Palestinian enclave hit a house near Tel Aviv and wounded seven people, leading to fears of a severe escalation

Turkey slams Donald Trump's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights as 'gift' to Benjamin Netanyahu

Trump's decision to proclaim that the Golan Heights — captured from Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967 — belongs to Israel hands a significant diplomatic victory to Netanyahu before 9 April elections.

Donald Trump drops another diplomatic bombshell, says it's time to recognise Israel's sovereignty over disputed Golan Heights

Donald Trump called Golan Heights — a strategic area seized from Syria and annexed in a move never recognized by the international community — of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and regional stability.

Israel strikes Iranian targets in Syria after missiles fired at Golan Heights kills 11 pro-regime fighters

Israel said targets included munitions stores, a site at Damascus International Airport that was allegedly the Quds Force's main logistics hub in the country, an Iranian intelligence installation and an Iranian military training camp.

Benjamin Netanyahu urges countries to recognise Golan Heights annexation, says Israeli presence in region will check Iran's 'expansion plans'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the international community to recognise the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights, a Syrian territory seized by Israel 51 years ago.

Syrian govt attacks Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Daraa to rid region of terrorists; thousands of opposition fighters flee to safety

Syrian government fired hundreds of missiles on Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Daraa, targetting the "terrorists". The opposition fighters fled to safety with their families