People of the occupied Golan: We reject the establishment of any settlement occupation scheme on our land

On October 11th, people in the occupied Syrian Golan affirmed their refusal to establish any settlement occupation scheme on their land, renewing their adherence to their Syrian Arab identity. 

 During a protest sit-in in the village of Masada, the participants said in a statement : “ We declare, in the name of the people of the occupied Arab Golan , refused to establish any occupation scheme on our land, which has been ours for hundreds of years, and our ancestors paid their blood to preserve it”.

The participants added: “We will prevent the Israeli occupier from seizing our land and we will cling to every speck of soil from the Golan.”  

The participants expressed their refusal of the  announcement of the occupation‘s  government of a new plan to establish seven thousand settlement units on their land with the aim of increasing the number of settlers from 40 to 100 thousand, within the framework of the occupation’s plans to change the demographic and geographical character in the Golan.  

They also affirmed their rejection of the occupation’s plan to establish 46 turbines on an area of approximately 6000 dunums of the lands of the villages of Majdal Shams, Ain Qinya, Beqatha and Masada, in flagrant violation of the resolutions of international legitimacy and the Charter of the United Nations. 

In a statement, the released prisoner Medhat Saleh said: “ The occupied Syrian Golan is Syrian Arab land and all international laws and resolutions of international legitimacy confirm this.” 

He said that the meeting of the occupation’s government on the land of the Golan in an attempt to expand settlements by establishing new settlements is categorically rejected by Syria and the people in the Golan.

Saleh added: “We must support the steadfastness of our people in the occupied Syrian Golan by all means, and we must move at the international level, international institutions and with friendly countries to pressure the occupation authorities to stop their settlement plans in the occupied Golan.” 

Syria constantly affirms that the occupied Golan is an integral part of its lands and works to return every inch of its soil to the homeland by all available means. 

O. al-Mohammad