People in occupied Syrian Golan reaffirm rejection of Israel’s plan to build wind turbines on their land

People in the occupied Syrian Golan have renewed their complete rejection of the Israeli occupation plan to build wind turbines on thousands of dunums of the Golan’s land. They have called on the international community, mainly the United Nations to stop this settlement building scheme that aims at displacing the Syrian citizens in a blatant violation of international legitimacy resolutions.

The Israeli wind turbines project is one of the most dangerous judaization and colonialist schemes that target the occupied Syrian Golan. It includes seizing some 6,000 dunums on three stages. In the first stage, the occupation seized swathes of land in the villages of Oyoun Al-Hajal, Al-Mansoura and Al-Thaljiyat, whose residents were displaced, and built 42 turbines with 123 meters height. The second stage targets the villages of Majdal Shams, Ein Qinieh, Mas’adeh and Baq’ata while the third targets Tal Al-Faras area.

In a statement to SANA, Dean of the liberated Syrian prisoners, said that implementing the first stage of this scheme on the evacuated villages violates all international laws and resolutions, foremost of which is the Security Council Resolution No. 497 for 1981 which stresses that all the occupation’s procedures in the Golan are null and void and of no legal effect.

 Al-Maqt pointed out that although Israel has occupied these villages, the displaced locals of these villages still hold the keys of their houses and all the documents that prove their ownership in confirmation of their right to return to their birthplace.

Al-Maqt asserted that the occupation’s project is being implemented in front of the eyes of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in Golan and amid the deadly silence of the international community over the occupation’s crimes against the Syrian people. He pointed out that the international community ignores its legal and moral responsibility towards the suffering of the people in the occupied Syrian Golan and it doesn’t  take any action to stop the occupation aggressive and repressive practices.

 On his part, Fouad Al-Sha’er, member of commission for resisting the turbine project, said that “the occupation has failed over the past 55 years to uproot us from our land. Today, the occupation is trying, through its turbine project, to displace us from our houses in the villages of Majdal Shams, Beq’ata, Mas’adeh and Ein Qinyeh which necessitate an immediate intervention by the international community to stop the occupation’s schemes.”

Nazih Ibrahim, a citizen from the Syrian Golan, clarified that the second stage of the project provides for seizing 4500 dunums of land in the villages of Majdal Shams, Beq’ata, Mas’adeh and Ein Qinyeh, which are rich in decades old cherry and apple trees.

He affirmed that occupied Golan is a Syrian Arab land whose people will continue to adhere to their national belongingness and Syrian Arab identity and will continue to resist the occupation until they foil all its judaization schemes and force it to give up its turbines project.

Syria continuously stresses that occupied Golan is an integrated part of Syria and it works hard to restore every inch of it by all possible means, being an Syrian eternal right that can’t be cancelled with the passage of time.

Hamda Mustafa