The Syrian Foreign Ministry condemns the new Israeli occupation settlement plan in the occupied Golan, stressing that it is an integral part of Syria's territory.
Damascus calls plan which calls for NIS 1 billion to be spent on housing, infrastructure and other projects with goal of attracting roughly 23,000 new settlers to the area a 'dangerous and unprecedented escalation'
GOLAN HEIGHTS: Israel's government on Sunday approved a $317 million plan to double the Jewish settler population in the Golan Heights, 40 years after it annexed the territory captured from Syria.Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's cabinet voted in favour of the plan that aims to build 7,300 settler homes in the region over a five-year period, during a meeting.