The U.S. State Department changed its usual description of the Golan Heights fro...
JERUSALEM - The U.S. State Department changed its usual description of the Golan Heights from “Israeli-occupied” to “Israeli-controlled” in an annual global human rights report released on Wednesday.
There was no immediate comment from Israeli leaders on the U.S. terminology change, which stopped short of a formal declaration accepting the territorial claim. A separate section in the State Department report, on the West Bank and Gaza, did not include the terms “occupied” or under “occupation” in referring to the Palestinian territories.
Breaking with a decades-long policy, and drawing Palestinian accusations of pro-Israel bias, President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017. He moved the U.S. Embassy to the contested holy city from Tel Aviv last year. Netanyahu travels to Washington later this month to address the pro-Israeli lobby AIPAC, and Israeli media reports said he also plans to hold talks with Trump, with the Golan recognition issue on the agenda.
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