The Golan is recognised as part of Syria by the United Nations. UN Resolution 242 calls for Israel to withdraw from Golan and other territories it occupied in 1967, including Gaza and the West Bank. The contested Golan Heights formally became part of Israel today as Prime Minister Menachem Begin pushed a measure through Parliament to annex the strategic zone along the Syrian border. Officials On the Golan Heights, One Battle Still Rages On. The Yom Kippur War may have ended 40 years ago, but the battle to write the history of the fierce skirmishes in the Golan Heights is still going strong. The asphalt on the Petroleum Road in the center of the Golan Heights is full of holes and cracks. I drive slowly on the crumbling road First published on Fri 22 Mar 2019 08.21 EDT. Syria has vowed to retake the Golan Heights as Donald Trump’s call for the US to recognise the occupied territory as part of Israel elicited strong Covering an area of 166 sq. km, the Sea of Galilee is a large freshwater lake located in the Jordan Rift Valley between the Galilee region and Golan Heights in the northeastern part of Israel, close to its borders with Jordan and Syria. The Sea of Galilee is a pear-shaped monomictic lake with a length of 21km, a maximum width of 13km, and a JERUSALEM — President Trump’s statement that the United States should recognize the Golan Heights as part of Israel was widely welcomed by Israelis on Friday but also triggered criticism that The move thrust the Golan Heights — a fertile plateau beside the Sea of Galilee that has been one of Israel’s quieter frontiers for a half-century — back into international headlines. The The fact that Syria is in absolutely no position to try to demand or negotiate the Golan heights back for the foreseeable future doesn't change the fact that the ethnic cleansing of Syrian citizens after the 1967 war, the "endless occupation" by the IDF, the annexation to Israel proper, and the "settlement" of the Golan with Israeli civilians Israel retaliated by launching drone strikes and artillery shells at Hezbollah positions near Lebanon's boundary with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The outbreak of the conflict had followed Hezbollah's declaration of support and praise for the Hamas attack on Israel , which took place on 7 October. Golan Heights, hilly area overlooking the upper Jordan River valley on the west. The area was part of extreme southwestern Syria until 1967, when it came under Israeli military occupation, and in December 1981 Israel unilaterally annexed the part of the Golan it held. QDTU0DP.