The United States opposes the expansion of Jewish residence in the Golan Heights. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said Wednesday that U.S. opposition to “settlement” activity extends to the Golan, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed in 1981.
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