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The Golan Heights ( Arabic: هَضْبَةُ الْجَوْلَانِ, romanized : Haḍbatu l-Jawlān or مُرْتَفَعَاتُ الْجَوْلَانِ, Murtafaʻātu l-Jawlān; Hebrew: רמת הגולן, Ramat HaGolan, pronunciation ⓘ ), or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau, at the southwest corner of Syria. It is bordered by the ...
The Valley of Tears ( Hebrew: עֵמֶק הַבָּכָא, Emek HaBakha) is the name given to an area in the Golan Heights after it became the site of a major battle in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, known as the Valley (or Vale) of Tears Battle, which was fought from 6 October to 9 October. Although massively outnumbered, the Israeli forces managed ...
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 under military occupation. [ 1]
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 ...
The Golan Heights is a strategic plateau that Israeli seized from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967, before formally annexing it in 1981. ... Maps show Tropical Storm Debby's path and forecast ...
Map of location of Syrian localities whose residents have been displaced since 1967 overlaid on top of the modern demographic map of the area Destroyed building in Quneitra Destroyed buildings in Quneitra. Before the Six-Day War and Yom Kippur War, the Golan Heights comprised 312 inhabited areas, including 2 towns, 163 villages, and 108 farms.
undof .unmissions .org. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force ( UNDOF) is a United Nations peacekeeping mission tasked with maintaining the ceasefire between Israel and Syria in the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The mission was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 350 on 31 May 1974, to implement ...
Katzrin ( Hebrew: קַצְרִין; also Qatzrin, Arabic: قصرين, romanized : qaṣrīn) is an Israeli settlement organized as a local council in the Golan Heights. [2] Known as the "capital of the Golan", [3] it is the second-largest locality there after Majdal Shams, and the largest Israeli settlement. [2] [4] In 2022 it had a population ...