Golan Heights – Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Golan Heights is a strip of land in northeastern Israel that was captured by Israel in the Six Day War of 1967.[3] The United Nations has voted to ask Israel to pull its troops out of the Golan Heights.[4] Syria and Israel still have not signed a peace treaty from that war, mostly because of the issue of the Golan. They almost reached a peace deal but they could not agree on where to draw the line, and what Syria would have to do in return.[5] On the western edge of the Golan Heights is a range of extinct volcanos.
In January 2013, the Israeli government said it planned to build a wall along the eastern edges of the Golan Heights, on its border with Syria.[6]
Map of the Golan Heights. Sites on the map in blue are Israeli villages;[4] and sites in black are Syrian villages.
A map of current and historical borders and ceasefire lines in the Golan Heights (from 1923)
the Golan Hights as today
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