Meir Golan sank his face in the dense, dark orange soil. He seemed desperate to stay close to his daughter for as long as possible, holding tight onto Shirel’s shroud as she was being buried.

Tensions between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have reached new heights in the wake of a deadly rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Shirel Golan survived the Oct. 7 massacre, but, just over a year later, the 22-year-old succumbed to its horrors and took her own life. Now, her older brother Eyal Golan, 36, is vowing to help ...

Why is Israel so keen on Golan Heights? Around 23,000 Druze people, who largely identify as Arabs and didn’t flee the land during the 1967 war, currently live alongside 30 Israeli settlements in ...

Scenario 1: Israel would retain strategic areas in the Golan Heights equivalent to one-third of its territory, hand over a third to Syria, and lease another third from Syria for a period of 25 years.

The Golan is home to 24,000 Druze, an Arab minority who practice an offshoot of Islam, Levine said. Many of the Druze adherents in Syria were long loyal to the Assad regime.

The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau in south-west Syria, extending towards north-east Israel. In the 1967 Middle East war, Israel captured about 1,200 km sq (about 460 square miles) ...