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Tehran, 04 April_Syria has denounced Israel's "systematic" violations of human rights of Syrians in the Arab country's occupied Golan Heights, warning against the expansion of Israeli settlement activities there.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva Ambassador Hussam al-Din Ala made the warning on Friday in a letter to the head of the UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting Human Rights of Palestinian People and Other Arabs of Occupied Territories.
He also demanded that the UN and the international community pay more attention to the dire situation of the human rights in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, calling for more international condemnation of violations committed by the Tel Aviv regime against the occupied region’s Syrian citizens.
The Syrian ambassador also referred to reports by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the head of the International Labor Organization that have confirmed the discriminatory practices and unfair restrictions imposed by Israel on Syrians in the occupied Golan Heights.
Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria after the 1967 Six-Day War and later occupied it in a move that has never been recognized by the international community. However, in a highly provocative move on March 25 last year US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation recognizing Israel's "sovereignty" over the Syrian territory.
Damascus strongly condemned the move and called it a "blatant attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity" of Syria.
Since the onset of the occupation, Tel Aviv has been building dozens of settlements in the region and has used it to carry out a number of military operations against the Arab country.
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