Source: BBC
Context: Israel conducted air strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon after a rocket attack killed 12 young people playing football in Majdal Shams, Golan Heights
About Golan Heights (or simply the Golan)
It is a strategic basaltic plateau in the southwest corner of Syria. It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon mountains with Mount Hermon in the north, and Wadi Raqqad in the east. Two thirds of the area was occupied by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War and then effectively annexed in 1981, which was rejected by the international community that continues to consider the territory as Syrian and under Israeli occupation.
