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Israel approves plan to surge settler population in occupied Golan Heights

Druze women walk near the fence leading to the buffer zone that separates Israeli and Syrian forces in the occupied Golan Heights [Jalaa Marey/AFP]

Israel’s government has approved a plan to increase the number of settlers in the illegally occupied Golan Heights, days after seizing more Syrian territory following the toppling of Syria’s longtime leader Bashar al-Assad.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the government had “unanimously approved” the “demographic development” of the occupied territory, which would seek to double the Israeli population there.

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