DAMASCUS, (ST)_The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Faisal Al-Miqdad, has affirmed that the recent developments in the occupied Palestinian lands have uncovered the racial nature of the Israeli occupation which is making use of the US- Western support for its acts.
“ The suffering of the Palestinian people and the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan should come to an end,” Al-Miqdad said on Thursday in a speech via video during activities of the 30th special session of the Human Rights Council on the grave situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.
He added the realizing just and comprehensive peace in the region necessitates putting an end to the Israeli occupation of the occupied Arab lands.
Al-Miqdad pointed out to the martyrdom of 254 Palestinians, including 70 children in Israel’s latest aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip in addition to the destruction of 18 residential towers that included 2000 apartments, the displacement of tens of thousands of people, and the destruction of schools, mosques, electricity and communication stations.
He affirmed that Syria condemns those Israeli crimes as “war crimes and crimes against humanity” that requires the punishment of their perpetrators.
Basma Qaddour