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Sunday, April 17, 2016
Syria: We will retake Golan by any means
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSyria’s deputy foreign minister hits back after Netanyahu vows the Golan Heights will remain part of Israel, and warns that the war-torn state will retake the plateau “by any means necessary, including using military force.”
Faisal al-Mekdad tells Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen network that “the Arab Syrian Golan is an occupied territory,” and that UN Security Council resolutions affirm that the area is Syrian, i24 reports.
The minister adds that “Israel is trying to be provocative, but do not give in to it.”
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