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The area known as ‘Golan Heights’ sometimes appears in the news in the context of the events related to:

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Explanation:

Golan Heights, is a hilly area overlooking the upper Jordan River valley on the west. The area was part of extreme southwestern Syria until 1967, when it came under Israeli military occupation, and in 1981 Israel unilaterally annexed the part of the Golan it held.