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Ambassador Ala: The Israeli aggression in Palestine and Syria are war crimes and a violation of international law

2022-09-30T14:54:21.024Z


Geneva, SANA- The permanent representative of Syria to the United Nations and international organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Husam Eddin Ala


Geneva-Sana

Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations and international organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Husam El-Din Ala, affirmed that the acts of Israeli aggression in Palestine and Syria have become a consistent pattern of reckless behavior that violates international law and pushes the region into an unprecedented state of tension and confrontation.

Ala said in a statement during today's meeting of the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights in Palestine and the other occupied Arab territories: The repeated Israeli attacks on Syrian lands, and their deliberate targeting of civilian facilities, including ports and airports, constitute practices that violate international law and war crimes that expose The lives of Syrians are at risk, and it threatens the safety of civil aviation in Syria and the region, and the work of humanitarian agencies that use these airports and seaports to deliver humanitarian aid, as well as endangering regional and international peace and security.

Ala added: In light of the policy of silence, and the double standards that control the attitudes of Western countries that favor “Israel”, the occupying power continues to commit massacres and crimes against the Palestinian people, violate their basic rights, subject Palestinians to collective punishment through the suffocating siege in Gaza, and demolish Homes, confiscation of property in occupied Jerusalem, closing entire areas in the West Bank, imposing restrictions on the movement of its residents, in addition to arbitrary arrests, torture of prisoners in occupation prisons, forced displacement, and depriving Palestinians of freely practicing their religious rites.

Ala continued: The martyrdom of the seven-year-old Palestinian child Rayan Suleiman yesterday, after he was chased by the Israeli occupation forces near his school, and his father was prevented from taking him to the hospital - as a tragic reminder of the crimes of the occupation authorities, and that they must be held accountable for those crimes.

Ala explained that the Israeli occupation authorities continue their systematic violations of human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan, and deprive Syrian citizens of enjoying their rights to education, health, work, food, shelter, decent living, freedom of movement and residence, and continue to confiscate their lands, and besiege their villages and cities with projects. To prevent them from demographic and urban expansion, to subject them to discriminatory treatment, to impose heavy financial burdens on their access to water, electricity, and health care, and to obstruct the marketing of their agricultural products that constitute the main source of their livelihood, with the aim of forcing them to leave or accept the occupation, and his illegal decision to impose its mandate On the occupied Golan, in violation of relevant United Nations resolutions, including Security Council Resolution 497 of 1981.

Ala stressed that the illegal settlement activities - which Israel - the occupying power - continues to carry out throughout the Palestinian territory, especially in and around East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan - constitute the main source of these violations, which are committed in light of the intensification and expansion of settlements The confiscation of land and theft of natural resources, and the transfer of population to the occupied territories within the framework of the demographic change practiced by the occupying entity, violating its legal obligations under international law and United Nations resolutions thanks to the American and Western protection for it from accountability.

Ambassador Ala said: Syria affirms that its right to recover the occupied Golan is an inalienable right guaranteed by international laws, United Nations resolutions, and the will of the Syrian people to fully recover their occupied land. The unilateral measures are null and void and have no international legal effect, and not to allow any commercial activity in the Israeli settlements that would contribute to the entrenchment of the occupation.

Ala added: Syria renews its firm support for the right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent, sovereign state, with Jerusalem as its capital, guaranteeing the right of refugees to return in implementation of relevant United Nations resolutions, and its support for the liberation of the remaining occupied Lebanese lands.

Ala thanked the countries participating in this discussion, which affirmed their adherence to the seventh item on the agenda on the situation of human rights in Palestine and the other occupied Arab territories as an essential part of the council's institutional building package.

Ala condemned the attempts of the United States to undermine this provision, which confirms its double standards in dealing with the human rights situation within the Human Rights Council, and its encouragement of the Israeli occupation authorities to persist in their violations and to act as an entity above the law and accountability.

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Source: sena

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