WHA unanimously adopts draft resolution on Syrian Golan and occupied Palestinian territories

Geneva (ST): The World Health Assembly adopted the draft resolution presented by Syria and the State of Palestine that includes the request to offer medical aid to the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan and enhance partnership with the UN agencies to strengthen health response capabilities in the occupied Palestinian territories and in the occupied Syrian Golan through ensuring comprehensive and sustainable protection in confrontation of the coronavirus pandemic.

Syria’s permanent representative to the UN offices and international organizations based in Geneva Hussam Eddin Ala affirmed, during a session held by the Organization through video conference to discuss the report of the WHO director general’s report about the health conditions in the occupied Arab territories, that the distinctive arbitrary measures taken by the Israeli occupation authorities in the occupied Syrian Golan contribute to the deteriorating health and living conditions and restrict the ability of the Golan people to obtain health care services and prevent their sons from studying in Syrian universities and return to work in the occupied Golan.

He warned against the danger of the landmines planted by the Israeli occupation inside the occupied Syrian villages and the danger of disposing of toxic wastes in occupied Syrian Golan and its adverse impact on the health and life of Golan people, demanding that the occupation authorities be obliged to allow the UN organizations to visit the occupied Golan, evaluate the living conditions of its Syrian population and so become informed with the conditions of the Syrian detainees in Israeli jails.

The Syrian diplomat also called on WHO to unconditionally implement its decisions regarding the health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories and the occupied Syrian Golan stressing that preventing WHO from conducting field evaluation about the situation in the occupied Golan violates legal restrictions imposed on the Zionist entity as it is an occupying force.

Concluding his speech, Ala affirmed the necessity for the reports of WHO to refer to the legal situation of Golan as an occupied land and that all the Israeli decisions on its people are null and void.

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