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An Israeli tank unit forms for a counterattack against Syria on the Golan Heights, Oct. 8, 1973. In 1973, Syria tried to reclaim the Golan Heights in a war it waged on Israel with Egypt.

Within hours, Israeli tanks rolled past a razor wire-reinforced fence into the Golan’s demilitarized buffer zone in Syria, created as part of a 1974 ceasefire between the countries.

The future of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights has become a hot topic of debate, after the Israel Defense Forces pushed troops and tanks over the border into Syrian territory.

Israeli soldiers sit on top of a tank along the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights from Syria proper (AP) ...

The Golan Heights was part of Syria until 1967, when Israel captured most of the plateau in the Six-Day War, also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, occupying it and annexing it unilaterally in 1981.

Israeli tanks continued to move inside the buffer zone separating the occupied Golan Heights with Syria on Wednesday.