Israel holds 1st cabinet meeting in Golan Heights to defy international calls
The Tel Aviv regime will hold the first cabinet meeting in the occupied Golan Heights to imply it will maintain its recalcitrant attitude not to return the annexed region to Syria.
According to Israeli media, the Sunday meeting will be held in defiance of international law that requires Israel to return Golan to Syria, the Ma'an news agency reported on Saturday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking the step to show that withdrawing from Golan was "in no way on the agenda, neither now nor in the future,” said an Israeli radio report.
Israel’s returning of Golan to its rightful owner is part of a draft agreement being drawn up during peace talks currently being held in Geneva aimed at ending the deadly five-year conflict in Syria.
Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria after the 1967 six-day war, which created an armistice line under Israeli military control.
Israel has built tens of illegal settlements in the area ever since. It has also used the region to carry out a number of military operations against the Syrian government.
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