MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AP) — The four sisters gathered by the side of the road, craning their necks to peer far beyond the razor wire-reinforced fence snaking across the mountain.

TASS/. Israel intends to maintain its military presence in a buffer zone in the Golan Heights until it receives security guarantees, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.

An Israeli soldier prays next to tanks deployed in the Golan Heights. (Atef Safadi/Shutterstock ... forces have launched an attack in the buffer zone over the fence in order to strengthen defense ...

The buffer zone was created following Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War. Since 1974, UN forces have maintained a presence in the area, ensuring that neither ...

After the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December, Israel expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights by seizing the demilitarized buffer zone, a move that violated the 1974 ...

Israel has stationed its infantry and armored personnel along the border with Syria and deployed paratroopers to the buffer zone to prevent ... part of the Golan Heights, with no resistance.

Israel's seizure of the Golan Heights split families apart. Five of the six Safadi sisters and their parents live in Majdal Shams, a Druze town next to the buffer zone created between the Israeli ...