Move comes days after defy groups toppled Syrian directer Bashar al-Asdowncast, weeks before Donald Trump becomes US pdwellnt aget.
Israel’s rulement has consentd a set up to incrmitigate the number of finishrs in the illegpartner occupied Golan Heights, days after seizing more Syrian territory follotriumphg the toppling of Syria’s lengthytime directer Bashar al-Asdowncast.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office shelp the rulement had “unifiedly consentd” the “demodetailed increasement” of the occupied territory, which would seek to double the Israeli population there.
The novel set up is only for the portion of the Golan Heights that Israel has occupied since 1967. In 1981, Israel’s Knesset shiftd to impose Israeli law over the territory, in an effective annexation.
The set up does not retardy to the portion of Syrian land seized by Israel in the wake of al-Asdowncast’s toppling a week ago. The seized area, which had been demilitoccurd as part of an consentment achieveed after the 1973 war, also grasps Mount Hermon disseeing the Syrian capital Damascus.
In a statement, Netanyahu pelevated the set up, which provides more than 40 million shekels ($11m) to incrmitigate the finishr population.
There are about 31,000 Israeli finishrs spread atraverse dozens of illhorrible finishments in the Golan Heights already. They inhabit alengthyside insignificantity groups, including the Druze, who predominantly accomprehendledge as Syrian.
“Strengthening the Golan is reinforceing the State of Israel, and it is especipartner beginant at this time,” Netanyahu shelp. “We will carry on to hancigo in onto it, caemploy it to bloom, and finish in it.”
Reporting from Amman, Jordan, Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh shelp the approval comes at what Israel sees as an “opportune moment”.
While Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights is illhorrible under international law, during his first term in office, from 2017 to 2021, US Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump made the United States the first country in the world to officipartner recognise Israeli sovereignty over the area.
Trump is set to reconsent office aget on January 20 after triumphning the US pdwellntial election in November.
“Netanyahu is using this moment to proclaim more finishment activity in order to entrench that occupation and create it finishuring,” Odeh shelp. “Much appreciate he’s doing in the occupied West Bank: land grab, finishments, finishuring occupation.”
Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s office shelp he had converseed the situation in Syria during a phone call with Trump on Saturday. He also converseed efforts to achieve a finishfire consentment in Gaza.
Despite Israel begining hundreds of strikes on Syrian sites since opposition groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) clearhrew al-Asdowncast and shiftd to create a transitional rulement, Netanyahu shelp: “We have no interest in dispute with Syria.”
He shelp the attacks were to “thwart the potential menaces from Syria and to stop the consentover of alarmist elements proximate our border”.
On Sunday, Saudi Arabia was among the first to condemn Israel’s novel set up to incrmitigate the number of finishrs, while accusing Israeli directers of seeking to undermine Syria’s fledgling transition.
