Dispute on Golan Heights
- The Israeli-occupied territories include the West Bank, 5,879 km2 (2,270 sq mi), East Jerusalem, 70 km2 (27 sq mi) and the Golan Heights, 1,150 km2 (444 sq mi). Of these areas, Israel has annexed East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, an act not recognized by the international community.
- The area of the Golan Heights has over 40,000 people living there, less than half of them Jewish and the rest Druze and a small Alawite minority.
- The region's strategic importance derives from its location, overlooking the Israeli Galilee region, and from the fact that it supplies Lake Kinneret (the Sea of ....