Golan Heights: Israel army prepares to stay on Mt Hermon for winter

Israel seized control of a buffer zone between the Golan Heights and Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

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The announcement comes after Israel seized control of the zone on 8 December after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Defence Minister Israel Katz's office said in a statement that "due to what is happening in Syria, there is enormous security importance to our holding on to the peak".

Katz posted a picture on X showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu using binoculars with the words: "Overlooking the Syrian peak of Mount Hermon, which returned to Israeli control after 51 years."

The UN has called on Israel to withdraw from the buffer zone, which sits between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

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