Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
Damascus, SANA-The occupied Syrian Golan is an Arab name for an integral part of Syria’s geography and history that includes many archaeological monuments which are witness to the history of this land and its identity to which the Israeli occupation has failed through its repeated attempts to target it.
Due to its location and importance, the occupied Syrian Golan played a prominent role in defense of the nation, its civilization and the future of its generations, according to Researcher, Ahmed Mahmoud al-Hassan, who has showed in his book (The Golan is History and Roots of a Geographical, Political and Cultural Study) that the Golan strategic importance stems from the surrounding land topography.
It is divided into a high northern part covered by lava and a more flat and fertile southern part covered by decomposing volcanic lava. It is based on Mount Hermon from the north and the Yarmouk Valley from the south and overlooks the Upper Galilee, the Hula Plain, and Tiberias.
In a statement to SANA, al-Hassan pointed out to the importance of the Golan site as it is a natural fortress surrounded from the west and south by rocky ridges and natural trenches, and from the north by Mount Hermon and Wadi Al-Saar Trench (Banias, either in the east, the Golan Mountains and from the south, the Valley of Raqad), which is easy to defend and fortify.
According to Hassan, the area of the occupied Syrian Golan is 1860 km2, equivalent to 1 percent of the total area of Syria, indicating that the Zionist entity occupied, during its brutal aggression on it on June 5, 1967 about 1250 km2.
The struggle of our citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan and their rejection of the Israeli occupation’s settlement and expansion plans remains the best testimony to their national and historical belonging to Syria.
Manar Salameh/Mazen Eyon
