Israel’s defence minister has instructed troops to prepare to stay for winter on peak of Mount Hermon, which sits on the border between Syria, Lebanon border and a UN demilitarised buffer zone in the Golan Heights. The announcement comes after Israel seized control of the zone on 8 December after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The UN has called on Israel to withdraw from the buffer zone, which sits between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. UN Secretary General António Guterres said in a statement that he was “deeply concerned by the recent and extensive violations of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”.Israel seized the area from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed it in 1981. The move was not recognised internationally, although the US unilaterally did so in 2019. Does UN has power to take actions against Israel ?
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