Sabbagh: The repeated Israeli attacks on Syrian territory are a flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations and perpetuate state terrorism

New York-Sana

Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Bassam Sabbagh, affirmed that “state” terrorism and repeated Israeli attacks on Syrian territory constitute a flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations, the provisions of international law and Security Council resolutions that emphasize respect for Syria’s sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity.

In a statement presented to the Presidency of the Security Council during today's session on the situation in the Middle East, Sabbagh explained that the series of repeated Israeli attacks on Syrian territory, the most recent of which was last Thursday, perpetuate the policies of the occupation entity based on practicing “state” terrorism and providing continuous support to terrorist groups in Syria in violation of Another traveled to the international instruments concerned with combating terrorism, pointing out that Syria informed the Security Council and the Secretary-General of the United Nations of the details of these attacks and the serious threat they pose to the security and stability of the region.

Sabbagh pointed out that the Israeli occupation authorities are continuing their attempts to perpetuate their occupation of the Syrian Golan in an unprecedented defiance of the international will and the relevant United Nations and Security Council resolutions, especially Resolutions 242, 338 and 497, by escalating settlements on the ruins of Syrian villages and lands that were destroyed by the Israeli occupation and its appropriation of the lands of the people of the Golan. Settlement schemes such as the start of implementing huge air fans on an area equivalent to one-fifth of the remaining agricultural land in the possession of the people of the Golan, which constitutes the green lung of the occupied Syrian villages, as well as the displacement of the people from their homes and their lands, and recently resorted to the establishment of water complexes for the Zionist settlers in the Golan in which more than 33 are stored. One million m3 is deprived of it from our people in the occupied Golan.

Sabbagh pointed out that the occupation authorities continue to practice racial discrimination against the people of the occupied Syrian Golan, arbitrary detention, torture, displacement, kidnapping, demographic change, and attempt to impose citizenship and Israeli educational curricula, as well as the theft of the Golan's natural resources through continuous exploration for underground resources, the looting of Syrian archaeological heritage, forgery of historical and archaeological sites and monuments, and an attempt to Judaize them. With the aim of obliterating its Syrian Arab identity.

The permanent representative of Syria to the United Nations indicated that the Israeli occupation authorities have prevented since 1967 all fact-finding missions established by the United Nations, including those established under the resolutions of the World Health Assembly, from reaching the occupied Syrian Golan to investigate the situation there and make recommendations in this regard. The occupation authorities also prevent the World Health Organization From unconditional access to the people of the occupied Golan to assess their conditions and meet their humanitarian needs, especially during the spread of the Corona epidemic, in disregard of its obligations as an occupying power.

Sabbagh explained that since August 27, 2014, the Israeli occupation authorities have continued to close the Quneitra crossing, which is the only legal crossing for the people of the occupied Syrian Golan to communicate with their homeland, Syria. Its burial of nuclear waste in a number of sites on the territory of the Syrian Golan in serious violation of international law and relevant international agreements, and which constitutes an imminent environmental threat to the region and its residents.

Sabbagh reiterated Syria's call on the international community to pressure "Israel", as the occupying power, to immediately and without delay open and operate the Quneitra crossing, which represents the artery that connects our people in the occupied Syrian Golan to their homeland and the lung from which they breathe, and its demand for the Security Council to put an end to Israel's settlement practices and its repressive measures. The right of our people in the occupied Syrian Golan, to be held accountable for it, and to take firm and immediate measures to prevent its recurrence.

Sabbagh stressed Syria's condemnation in the strongest terms the recent US statements regarding the occupied Syrian Golan, which confirm that the US policy towards it comes from the Israeli perspective and to serve its aggressive and expansionist policies in the region, stressing that these statements are void and have no legal effect and that the occupied Golan is inevitably returning to the homeland by all means. guaranteed by international law.

Sabbagh expressed Syria's regret that the General Secretariat's reports continued to ignore the dangerous reality and the systematic Israeli practices and violations against our people in the occupied Golan again. Violations and practices of the Israeli occupation authorities against our people in the Golan.

Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations pointed out that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to escalate their systematic attacks and violations against the Palestinian people, including the barbaric bombing of the Gaza Strip and the suffocating siege imposed on it, in addition to the settlers' escalation of their attacks on the Palestinians under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, as happened in the neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Bab al-Amud. Silwan in the occupied city of Jerusalem and its protection for settlers during the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque in large numbers and the attack on worshipers inside and outside Al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as its persistence in its violations of international law and its ignoring of international legitimacy resolutions related to the issue of the Palestinian people.

Sabbagh stressed Syria's condemnation of these Israeli practices, which constitute a serious violation of the rights of the Palestinian people in the city of Jerusalem and the historical and legal status of Al-Aqsa Mosque, which imposes on the occupying power to abide by, pointing out that the continuation of these practices would not have been possible without the care and protection provided by successive US administrations and some countries Western.

Sabbagh stressed that Syria's commitment to the cause of the Palestinian people is inseparable from its commitment to our people in the occupied Golan, and it supports their right to self-determination and the establishment of its independent state on its entire national soil, with Jerusalem as its capital, and to guarantee the right of refugees to return to their homes in accordance with UN Resolution No. 194 of 1948, stressing that Any decisions, procedures, or deals that do not comply with the relevant United Nations resolutions and do not preserve the established Palestinian rights are rejected in form and content and are not viable in the first place. The countries of the world and the United Nations, including the Security Council, must put an end to the Israeli practices against the Palestinian people and enable them to obtain their legitimate historical rights And granting the State of Palestine full membership in the United Nations.