Jerusalem, May 13
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced the establishment of a new Jewish settlement in the occupied Syrian territory of Golan Heights, honouring US President Donald Trump.
In March, Trump had officially recognised Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, a part of Syria that has been under Israeli military occupation since the Six-Day War of 1967. “I promised that we will establish a community named after President Donald Trump. I will like to inform you that we have already selected a site on the Golan Heights where this new community will be established and we have started the process,” Netanyahu said at the beginning of the weekly Cabinet meeting via a Twitter post.
He said he was going to ask President Reuven Rivlin for an extension of the period to form a coalition after winning April’s general elections, the media said. — IANS
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