Golanhoogland

Golanhoogland هضبة الجولان רמת הגולן
Ligging van die Golanhoogland.
Oppervlak
• Totaal	1 200 km2 (500 vk. myl)
Hoogte	2 814 m (9 232 ft)
Bevolking
• Totaal	40 000−49 700
Tydsone	UTC+3 (+2)
Status	Internasionaal erken as Siriese grondgebied wat deur Israel beset word[1][2][3][4]

Die Golanhoogland (Arabies: هضبة الجولان, Haḍbatu l-Jawlān, of مرتفعات الجولان, Murtafaʻātu l-Jawlān; Hebreeus: רמת הגולן, HaGolan) is ’n streek van sowat 1 800 km² in die Levant. Die definisie van die streek verskil tussen twee dissiplines: As ’n geologiese en biogeografiese streek is die Golanhoogland ’n basaltagtige plato wat in die suide deur die Jarmoekrivier begrens word, in die weste deur die See van Galilea en die Hoelavallei, in die noorde deur die Anti-Libanonberge met Hermonberg en in die ooste deur die wadi Ruqqad; en as ’n geopolitieke streek is dit die gebied wat tydens die Sesdaagse Oorlog van 1967 van Sirië verower is en sedert 1981 as deel van Israel geadministreer word (die Golanhoogland behoort tot die Noordelike distrik). Dié streek sluit die westelike tweederdes van die geologiese Golanhoogland en die Israelies besette deel van Hermonberg in.

1. ↑ "The international community maintains that the Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the occupied Syrian Golan is null and void and without international legal effect." International Labour Office (2009). The situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories (International government publication uitg.). International Labour Office. p. 23. ISBN 978-92-2-120630-9.
2. ↑ In 2008, a plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly voted by 161–1 in favour of a motion on the "occupied Syrian Golan" that reaffirmed support for UN Resolution 497. (General Assembly adopts broad range of texts, 26 in all, on recommendation of its fourth Committee, including on decolonization, information, Palestine refugees, United Nations, 5 December 2008.)
3. ↑ "the Syrian Golan Heights territory, which Israel has occupied since 1967". Also, "the Golan Heights, a 450-square mile portion of southwestern Syria that Israel occupied during the 1967 Arab–Israeli war." (CRS Issue Brief for Congress: Syria: U.S. Relations and Bilateral Issues, Congressional Research Service. 19 January 2006)
4. ↑ Occupied territory: "Israeli-occupied Golan Heights" (Central Intelligence Agency. CIA World Factbook 2010, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2009. pg. 339. ISBN 1-60239-727-9.)