Syria said it would buy apples grown by Arab farmers in Israel’s Golan Heights. It’s believed that the purchase of 10,000 apples from Arab farmers would represent the first time Syria has bought goods produced in the Golan, which Israel annexed after capturing the strategic plateau from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.
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