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Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, stressed that the plans of the Israeli occupation entity to settle in the occupied Syrian Arab Golan threaten to undermine regional stability.
Russia Today website quoted Nebenzia as saying during a meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the situation in the Middle East and developments in the Palestinian cause, in particular: “Israel’s settlement plans in the occupied Syrian Golan also threaten to undermine regional stability,” referring to the high frequency of violence by Israeli settlers against the Palestinians with The occupation government condones
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Nebenzia also expressed his country's concern about the escalation of tension in occupied Jerusalem, pointing out that Russia is closely following developments in the West Bank and Jerusalem, where the Israeli security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets against Palestinian demonstrators in the Temple Mount, which resulted in the injury of hundreds of people, stressing the need to prevent a violation of The legal and historical status of the holy places.
Nebenzia also warned Israel against taking measures aimed at imposing irreversible facts on the ground, including demolishing Palestinian homes, confiscating their property and carrying out arbitrary arrests, calling for the resumption of the peace settlement process based on the internationally recognized legal base, stressing that failure to resolve the Palestinian issue represents a reason for the escalation of violence in the region.
Nebenzia stressed the need to exercise restraint and refrain from provocative steps and unilateral measures in order to avoid a repetition of the scenario of last May, pointing out that the United Nations Coordinator for the Middle East Tor Venesland stressed in his speech that the situation continues to escalate due to the continued occupation of its aggressive settlement policy in violation of international law in the West Bank. and East Jerusalem, stressing that it is impossible to move forward in the peace process without achieving Palestinian reconciliation, and expressing his country's readiness to provide the necessary assistance in this direction.
