Israel occupied a portion of Syria’s Golan Heights during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, annexing the territory in 1981. The UN condemned that decision as “null and void and without international legal effect.”
In 2019, the Trump administration formally recognized Israeli sovereignty over the occupied territory.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced the beginning of “practical steps” in the creation of the so-called ‘Trump Heights’ settlement in the Golan Heights, in recognition of the administration’s recognition of Tel Aviv’s sovereignty over the occupied Syrian territory,the PM announced on his official Hebrew-language Twitter account on Sunday.
