The Golan Heights is part of Israel and will remain under its sovereignty forever, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, The Jerusalem Post reported.
Netanyahu’s comments came at the weekly cabinet meeting, where he thanked the US for voting for the first time against an annual UN resolution calling for Israel to return the Golan Heights to Syria. In the past, the US abstained.
“We have for some time been speaking with our friends the Americans on the present administration’s policies at the UN,” he said.
Netanyahu thanked Trump and outgoing US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley for this “important and just” vote which is “completely in line with our policies -- Israel will remain forever on the Golan Heights, and the Golan Heights will forever remain in our hands.”