Israel will never give up the Golan Heights, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday, a day after the Israeli leader said he delivered the same message to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Hungary will not label separately products made in the West Bank or the Golan Heights, its foreign minister said.
Israel said on Sunday that one of its citizens, probably a member of the country\’s Muslim Arab minority, had illegally flown to rebellion-wracked Syria by using a paraglider to cross the Golan Heights frontier.
The United States Embassy in Tel Aviv has warned U.S. citizens to avoid travel to Israel’s Upper Galilee and Golan Heights.
Israel questions how far it should go to aid Druze communities in the south of Syria
Throughout Syria\’s civil war, Israel has contended with bullets and mortars straying across its northern border.
Druze villagers on the Israeli Golan Heights attacked an Israeli military ambulance on Monday and one of two Syrian casualties it was carrying from the civil war next door died, police said.
Rebels in southern Syria announced a major offensive on Wednesday to capture remaining positions held by the Syrian military in Quneitra province, near the Israeli Golan Heights, where bombardments could be seen a short distance away.\n
Israel signaled readiness on Tuesday to intervene if Syrian refugees were to throng to its armistice line on the Golan Heights, after Israel\’s Druze Arab minority stepped up a public campaign to help brethren caught up in the civil war next door.
Two mortar shells fired from Syria struck open areas near a kibbutz in the Golan Heights.
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