{"id":49914,"date":"2024-12-15T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/israel-to-expand-golan-heights-settlements-after-fall-of-assad\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T16:25:00","slug":"israel-to-expand-golan-heights-settlements-after-fall-of-assad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=49914","title":{"rendered":"Israel to expand Golan Heights settlements after fall of Assad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The settlers live alongside some 20,000 Syrians, most of them Druze Arabs who did not flee when the area came under Israeli control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Netanyahu said Israel would &#8220;continue to hold on to [the territory], make it flourish and settle it&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The announcement comes a day after Syria&#8217;s new de-facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa  criticised Israel for its ongoing strikes on military targets in the country, which have reportedly targeted military facilities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has documented more than 450 Israeli air strikes in Syria since 8 December, including 75 since Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Al-Sharaa &#8211; also known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani &#8211; said the strikes &#8220;crossed red lines&#8221; and risked escalating tensions in the region, though he said Syria was not seeking a conflict with any neighbouring state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to Syria TV, which was seen as pro-opposition during the civil war, al-Sharaa said the country&#8217;s &#8220;war-weary condition, after years of conflict and war, does not allow for new confrontations&#8221;, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has not commented on his remarks, but previously said the strikes were necessary to stop weapons falling &#8220;into the hands of extremists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cz6lgln128xo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more than 30 Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights, which are home to an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4116,3477,3171,1818,1835,389,4372],"class_list":["post-49914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-assad","tag-expand","tag-fall","tag-golan","tag-heights","tag-israel","tag-settlements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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