Syria Renews Call for Ending ‘Israeli’ Occupation of Its Golan Heights

By Staff, SANA

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Hussam Eddin Ala reiterated the Arab country’s demand for ending the ‘Israeli’ occupation of its Arab Golan Heights.

“In spite of the repeated resolutions issued by the Human Rights’ Council and UN bodies which call for ending the ‘Israeli’ occupation of the Syrian Golan, the ‘Israeli’ entity continues its illegitimate procedures to impose its laws and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan in a flagrant violation of the UN Security Council resolutions, including resolution no.497 for 1981,” Ala said in a statement to the 45th session of the Human Rights Council on the state of the human rights in Palestine and other occupied Arab lands.

The occupation authorities continue their suppressive practices against the Syrian citizens in the occupied Golan and impose restrictions and arbitrary measures which violate their basic rights, including their right to work, health, education, possession and freedom of movement. They also continue to loot the natural resources of the occupied Syrian Golan, the ambassador indicated.

“The occupying forces continue to tighten noose against the Golanese people in an attempt to seize their agriculture lands and to confiscate them and establish an agricultural situation to serve the ‘Israeli’ settlers, in addition to restricting the Syrian citizens’ movement and preventing them from building on their lands in the framework of the ‘Israeli’ schemes to establish a demographic change in the occupied Syrian Golan” Ala added.

Syria stresses the importance of the Item 7 on the state of the human rights in Palestine and other occupied Arab lands regarding monitoring the ‘Israeli’ violations of the human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the Eastern al-Quds and the occupied Syrian Golan and its role in putting pressures on the occupying authority to oblige it to stop committing violations and illegal practices and to end its occupation,” Ala added, holding the states supporting ‘Israel’ responsible for the continuation of those crimes.

“Syria condemns the continued expansion of ‘Israeli’ settlements in the Syrian Golan and the occupied Palestinian territories, including Eastern al-Quds, and calls for complete cessation of all forms of settlement and other activities aimed at making demographic change and converting the legal situation of the occupied lands in a blatant violation of the UN Security Council relevant resolutions and  the Fourth Geneva Convention,” the ambassador added.