Published: March 13, 2019
- State department changes term in annual human rights report
- Israel captured territory from Syria in 1967 war
The US state department has changed its usual description of the Golan Heights from “Israeli-occupied” to “Israeli-controlled” in an annual global human rights report released on Wednesday.
A separate section on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, areas that Israel captured along with the Golan Heights in a 1967 Middle East war, also did not refer to those territories as being “occupied” or under “occupation”.
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