BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:20 P.M.) - Israel is pushing the Trump administration to recognize the occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory, a new report from Israel's Channel 10 reported on Sunday.
According to the report from Channel 10, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought up the occupied Golan Heights issue with U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton during their talks this past weekend.
Netanyahu would later state during a joint press conference on Sunday that he would be traveling to the occupied Golan Heights with Bolton.
"Tomorrow, if weather permits, we'll go up to the Golan Heights...the Golan Heights is tremendously important for our security, and when you're there, I think you'll realize why we'll never leave the Golan Heights, and why it's important that all countries recognize Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights," Netanyahu said, as quoted by Israel's Arutz Sheva News.
Israel has been pushing the U.S. to recognize the occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory for quite some time, despite the fact that the international community has repeatedly asserted that this region belongs to Syria.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) captured the Golan Heights during the Six-Day War of 1967; since then, Syria and the international community has demanded Israel immediately withdraw from the region.
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