Our people in the occupied Syrian Arab Golan renewed their adherence to their Syrian Arab national identity and their continuous confrontation of  all practices of the Israeli occupation entity in the occupied Golan until its liberation.

On the 39th anniversary of the comprehensive national strike against the ill-fated Israeli annexation decision, our people in the Golan confirmed their continued resistance and struggle to confront all the plans of the occupation entity and stand with the Syrian Arab Army until the liberation of the entire territory of the occupied Golan.

Our people in the occupied Syrian Golan today commemorate the 39th anniversary of the comprehensive strike against the invalid Israeli occupation’s decision to annex the Golan.   They go on strike as an annual national tradition through which they affirm their adherence to the Syrian Arab identity and their struggle and confrontation of  all Israeli settlement plans in the occupied Golan until the liberation of its entire territory and its return to the homeland.

The Israeli Knesset issued a decision on December 14, 1981 to annex the occupied Golan and impose Israeli laws on its people. Then,  our people in the occupied Golan went on a    strike on the 14th  of February 1982 when they confronted the ill-fated decision of the Israeli occupation Knesset. Since then they have been carrying out an open strike to reject the imposition of the "Israeli identity" and the invalid annexation decision, and to confirm their adherence to their national identity. They express their continuous struggle in the face of the arbitrary occupation measures until the liberation of the Golan Heights and the return to the homeland of Syria.

Al-Awda Valley in the liberated area of the lands of Majdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Arab Golan is an embodiment of a humanitarian epic and a historical struggle that has refused division and stood in the face of the occupation, blocking its arrogance from one side and proving to the homeland its steadfastness from the other.

In the area overlooking the village of Majdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Golan, specifically in Ain Al-Tineh, the liberated part of it, SANA  met Dr. Samir Abu Saleh, one of the locals. He began his speech by referring to his family's house located a few meters away, separating him from it is a barbed wire planted by the arrogant occupation that prevented him from contacting his family and from reaching the land that embraced his childhood and memories.

DAMASCUS, (ST)- Prime Minister Hussein Arnous on Monday received a delegation representing the people in the occupied Syrian Golan. 

The delegation handed the prime minister the national document of the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan that affirms their continuous resistance and struggle against the aggressive plans of the Zionist occupation until Golan is liberated and that emphasizes their adherence to the national principles and the Syrian Arab identity. 

Arnous said that the Syrian people are proud of the sacrifices of the people in the occupied Golan and their adherence to their national identity and land, pointing out that “our people in the occupied Golan insists on not ceding an inch of their sacred soil and on resisting the Zionist occupation’s schemes against them, most recent of which was the occupation’s plan to set up wind turbines on their farmlands.”

Syria has renewed its call on the Security Council to act immediately as to enforce the implementation of the Resolution No. 497 of 1981 and force the Israeli occupation entity to stop its illegal settlement activities and repressive procedures against the people in the occupied Syrian Golan and to withdraw from the entire Golan to the June 4th 1967 line.

Resolution 497 (1981) reaffirms that the acquisition of territory by force is inadmissible in accordance with the United Nations Charter, the principles of international law, and relevant Security Council resolutions.