HRC adopts two resolutions demanding that “Israel” cease its violations against people of occupied Golan and Palestine

GENEVA, Apr.4, (ST)-Today, the Human Rights Council in Geneva adopted by majority two draft resolutions entitled: “Human Rights in the Occupied Syrian Golan” and “Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Occupied Syrian Golan”, in which the occupation entity was asked to end to its systematic violations against our people in the occupied Syrian Golan and in occupied Palestine.

In a statement he made before voting on the two drafts resolutions, Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Haydar Ali Ahmad, said that the repeated terrorist aggressions targeting Syria pose a continuation of the criminal approach of the Israeli entity against the peoples and the countries of the region.

Ambassador Ahmad stressed that all measures including the so called the annexation of the Golan Heights are null and void and has no legal impact according to related UN resolutions, namely No.497 for the year 1981.

He added that Syria thanks the Pakistani delegation for presenting the two draft resolutions to the Council.

“Fifty six years have passed since the occupation of the Syrian Golan, and the systematic violations committed by the Israeli occupation against its people continue through discriminatory and racist practices and policies that affect all their basic rights. The steps of the occupation authorities continue to consolidate its illegal decision to annex the Golan….Among these steps are the colonial settlement policies, land and property theft, plundering of natural resources, changing the demographic composition and institutional structure of the occupied Syrian Golan, displacing its people and targeting their cultural identity,” the ambassador said.

He went on to say that the two draft resolutions are important as they are tools for monitoring the escalation of the violations related to the Israeli settlement project in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan and reminding states of their obligations not to engage in any activity that would prolong theses violations.

The ambassador concluded by saying: “We renew our full support for the mandate of the Special Committee to investigate Israeli practices that affect the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arab residents in the occupied territories, and we call for granting it access to the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and to the occupied Syrian Golan to enable it to carry out the tasks entrusted to it.”

Basma Qaddour