{"id":31910,"date":"2026-04-16T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/israel-approves-5-year-plan-to-develop-illegal-settlements-in-syrias-golan-heights\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:00:48","slug":"israel-approves-5-year-plan-to-develop-illegal-settlements-in-syrias-golan-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/israel-approves-5-year-plan-to-develop-illegal-settlements-in-syrias-golan-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel approves 5-year plan to develop illegal settlements in Syria&#8217;s Golan Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/thumbs_b_c_5c045b2abf205516c6ce8e9a7388165e.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Israel has approved a 5-year plan worth about 334 million dollars for the development of illegal settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, which covers the years 2026-2030, as reported by &#8220;The Times of Israel&#8221;, foresees about 1 billion shekels (334 million dollars) for strengthening the infrastructure and encouraging the growth of the Israeli population in the territory. occupied.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials said the initiative aims to turn the settlement of Katzrin into the &#8220;first city of the Golan,&#8221; according to Israeli Cabinet Minister Ze&#8217;ev Elkin.<\/p>\n<p>The step came after a meeting earlier this week between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and local officials, including Katzrin Local Council head Yehuda Dua and Golan Regional Council head Uri Kellner.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the Tnufa Directorate for the North, in coordination with local authorities, will oversee the implementation of the plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will strengthen the academy, scientific research and the &#8216;Kiryat Shmona&#8217; University with a branch in Katzrin, a faculty and a veterinary hospital,&#8221; said Dua.<\/p>\n<p>The directorate plans to bring 3 thousand new Israeli families to Katzrin and the Golan Heights by the end of decade.<\/p>\n<p>According to international law, the Golan Heights are recognized as Syrian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 and settlement expansion there is considered illegal.<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to improve the experience and display advertisements (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has approved a 5-year plan worth about 334 million dollars for the development of illegal settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, reports Anadolu. The plan, which covers the years 2026-2030, as reported by &#8220;The Times of Israel&#8221;, foresees about 1 billion shekels (334 million dollars) for strengthening the infrastructure and encouraging the growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-31910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":47,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31912,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31910\/revisions\/31912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}