UN report reveals Israel conduct in the
occupied Golan
Syria-Israel, Politics, 7/7/2005
The UN facts finding commission on the Israeli practices of
violating human rights in the occupied Arab lands, including the Golan, stressed
that conditions of Arabs living under the Israeli occupation have been
continuously deteriorating since the formation of the committee in 1968 to the
present time.
The chairman of the fact finding commission, who is Sri Lanka permanent resident
representative and Ambassador to the UN, Prasad Kariyawasam said that available
information provided to the committee indicate that conditions of the Arab
citizens in the occupied lands are worsening especially in the light of
"building the wall of separation" and the Israeli practices in demolishing
houses," noting simultaneously that acts of detention carried out against Arabs
under occupation. He said that his statements are based on testimonies given by
witnesses to the committee.
He continued that "since Israel had categorically rejected to collaborate with
the committee and to give it access to information and people to serve to this
end, the committee aspires its information from the governments of Israel's
neighboring states. This is conducted via telephone calls with witnesses in the
occupied lands and representatives for the civilian commissions and human rights
activists."
The committee started its five day tour in the region in order to prepare its
annual report including Beirut, Damascus, Amman and Cairo.
In Damascus, the delegation met with the Syrian deputy foreign minister Walid
al-Mu'allim who called on the "international community and members of the UN
Security Council to shoulder their responsibility to pressure Israel and force
it to implement UN Security Council resolutions so as to enhance the role of the
UN at the international arena." The director of foreign organizations department
at the foreign ministry Faisal al-Hamwi handed over the commission Syria's
report of the violations of the Israeli forces of the Syrians in the occupied
Golan Heights. The report read that "the Israeli occupation authorities steals
the Golan's antiquities ruins with the aims of falsifying the facts of history
and changing the Arab language curricula by a Hebrew one" and "placing obstacles
before Syrians youths of the Golan to head for their HOMEland Syria to pursue
university studies," as well as "removing fertile soil of the Golan to the
Israeli settlements and dumping poisonous wastes and radioactive chemicals of
the Israeli wastes in the lands of the Golan
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