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The '''Golan Heights''' ([[Hebrew]]: '''רמת הגולן''' ) ([[Arabic]]:'''هضبة الجولان''') is a plateau on the border of four rival countries in the [[Middle East]]: [[Israel]], [[Lebanon]], [[Jordan]] and [[Syria]].

The '''Golan Heights''' ([[Hebrew]]: '''רמת הגולן''' ) ([[Arabic]]:'''هضبة الجولان''') is a plateau on the border of four rival countries in the [[Middle East]]: [[Israel]], [[Lebanon]], [[Jordan]] and [[Syria]].

Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in both the [[Six-Day War]] (1967) and the [[Yom Kippur War]] (1973).  Syria insists that the Golan Heights are part of the governorate of al Qunaytirah, and  [[United Nations]] Resolution 242, unanimously adopted by the UN Security Council on 22 November 1967 takes the position that Israel should withdraw from the territory, along with all other territories that it occupied during the [[Six Day War]].

Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in both the [[Six-Day War]] (1967) and the [[Yom Kippur War]] (1973).  Syria insists that the Golan Heights are part of the governorate of al Qunaytirah, and  [[United Nations]] Resolution 242, unanimously adopted by the [[United Nations]] Security Council on 22 November 1967 takes the position that Israel should withdraw from the territory, along with all other territories that it occupied during the [[Six Day War]].

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