Golan Heights 15,000

46. In the Golan Heights, there are currently 15,000 Israelis living in 33 settlement communities established in the wake of Israel s 1967 capture of the Golan Heights.

Almarsad The Arab Center for Human Rights in the Golan Heights, Majdal Shams

BADIL has also joined the Occupied Palestinian and Syrian Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative.

33. Settlement activities have intensified in the Golan Heights since Prime Minister Netanyahu took office in June 1996.

There were approximately 17,000 Druze living in the Golan Heights and many felt attached to Syria. (Ha aretz, 9 September)

The Government of Lebanon emphasized the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the General Assembly resolutions to the Golan Heights.

The next report would be more explicit regarding the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

355. On 10 February, hundreds of Golan Heights Druse demonstrated in Majdal Shams in support of Iraq and President Saddam Hussein.

We call once again for the resumption of peace talks between Israel and Syria concerning the Golan Heights, occupied since June 1967.

Currently, 1,200 of them are deployed in missions from Kosovo to the Golan Heights and from Afghanistan to Aceh and the Sudan.

362. On 25 May, a housing campaign opened on the Golan Heights, with 380 homes going on sale in 14 settlements there.

This includes an ongoing plan for the development of tourism in the Golan Heights, which is estimated at about US 5.5 million.

Statement on the expansion of settlements in the Golan Heights, issued on 26 August 1998 by the Presidency of the European Union

Since then, it had contributed troops to peacekeeping operations in Cambodia, Mozambique and the Golan Heights and to humanitarian relief operations in Zaire.

354. On 3 September, a group of more than 80 Druze from the Golan Heights crossed into Syria in order to study at universities there.

The European Union is concerned about reports that on 19 August an Israeli ministerial committee approved a plan to expand settlements in the Golan Heights.

56. Employment opportunities for the Syrian Arab population in the Golan Heights are extremely restricted, since the movement of the Arab population between the Golan and the Syrian Arab Republic remains problematic with the current stalled peace process.

No deal would be sweet enough, even if it included the return of the Golan Heights. For Assad and his supporters, survival is more important than sovereignty.

A resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights was adopted by a vote of 92 to 2 (Israel and the United States of America).

UNTSO military observers are deployed in the Golan Heights, South Lebanon and Sinai, at the Mission's headquarters in Jerusalem and at its liaison offices in Beirut and Damascus.

He was also interested in knowing how occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights had affected the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for the population in that area.

357. On 23 March, the Knesset Law Committee discussed a proposed amendment to the Golan Heights Law which would require a two thirds majority to alter the Law.

The Syrian national anthem was played and speeches calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights were made on both sides of the border.

This and other out of the ordinary actions by the Syrian forces were reportedly keeping the IDF on constant alert for a surprise attack in the Golan Heights.

quot As a matter of fact, there is a special law applying to the border area. They do not levy taxes from the Jews living in the Golan Heights.

No similar estimates are available for the Golan Heights, where some 15,000 inhabitants of Syrian nationality are living in a few villages close to the Syrian Lebanese border.2

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, OF THE SYRIAN CITIZENS IN THE OCCUPIED SYRIAN GOLAN HEIGHTS AND OF THE LEBANESE CITIZENS IN OCCUPIED SOUTH LEBANON

151. On 13 January, the Lod Military Court sentenced four Druze residents from Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights to prison for injuring IDF soldiers and damaging state owned property.

In 2005, such mapping projects will be carried out for peacekeeping missions in Burundi, the north of Liberia, the Sudan and the Golan Heights between Israel and the Syrian Arab Republic.

331. On 6 March, it was reported that the Israeli Government had allocated 5 million for settlements in the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights as part of the budget.

358. On 16 September, it was reported that, in an exceptional move, Israel had recently allowed Syria to carry out, through the United Nations, a surprise inspection in the Golan Heights.

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In this regard, it was appropriate to mention the construction of a racist separation wall and extension of illegal settlements in the occupied Arab territories of Palestine and the Syrian Golan Heights.

Hundreds of residents of Druze villages in the Golan Heights gathered on the Israeli side of the border to see the students off and convey greetings to relatives on the Syrian side.

355. On 8 September, the Acre Magistrate s Court released on bail the Druze woman from the Golan Heights who had been detained for almost a month on charges of spying for Syria.

Tension between Israel and Syria had reportedly begun eight months earlier, when the Syrians had moved a division from the vicinity of the Golan Heights to the Lebanese side of Mount Hermon.

According to Jane s Defence Weekly, the Syrian army facing the IDF in the Golan Heights had started to deploy some of its 200 T 55 tanks, upgraded with advance anti armour missiles.

Surely the ledger of the pious will be in 'Illiyun (heights above the heights).

Surely the ledger of the pious will be in 'Illiyun (heights above the heights).

quot There are no emergency facilities for accidents in the Golan Heights, for car accidents, for example. They have to go into Israel. quot (Anonymous witness no. 30, A AC.145 RT.724)

By the end of 1998, more than 350,000 Israelis will be living in over 200 communities established since 1967 in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights.3

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