Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Dr. Fayssal Mikdad stressed that the crimes of the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories are inseparable from its practices in the occupied Syrian Golan.
Mikdad’s remarks came in a statement, delivered on his behalf by Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh during the Ministerial meeting of the UN Security Council.
“The Israeli entity’s repeated crises, lead its failure leaders to export these crises through launching attacks against the Palestinian people and the Syrian lands,” Mikdad said.
He added that the holy month of Ramadan witnesses every year an Israeli criminal escalation and shameful hostile practices against the Palestinian people, expressing regret over the UN Security Council’s silence towards these crimes against humanity.
Mikdad renewed that “Syria condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli occupying forces attacks on the worshipers in al-Aqsa Mosque and their desecration of the Holy Sanctuary, and expresses its denunciation of the international continued silence towards the occupation’s crimes which aimed at igniting the region and pushing it to higher levels of tension and instability.”
“Israel’s supporting countries hold responsible for this escalation and its repercussions,” Mikdad said, calling upon the UN to condemn these violations, work to stop them and ensure that they will not be repeated and work to put pressure on Israel, the occupying force, to commit to the implementation of the international legitimacy resolutions related to the Palestinian cause, as well as to empower the Palestinian people from their national, legitimate and inalienable rights.
Mikdad renewed support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) continued work and its support to the refugees as “indispensable”, particularly in light of the Israeli continued occupation of the Palestinian territories, referring to the necessity that the UNRWA continues to fulfil its mandate and to ensure sufficient and sustainable needed funding by the UN and donor countries to it.
Mikdad reiterated that the Israeli occupation crimes in the Palestinian territories are inseparable from its practices in the occupied Syrian Golan since 1967, which are represented an Israeli’s continued aggressive policies against the Syrian citizens in occupied Golan and its heinous violations of the international law and the humanitarian international law, including arrest, killing and displacement, in addition to its systematic settlement and expansion policy in the occupied Golan, and imposing demographic change on it and plundering its natural resources and seizing its lands.
He pointed out that the Israeli occupation forces exploits the land in the occupied Golan as a platform to launch its repeated aggressions on the Syrian territories, as it targeted on 22, last March, Aleppo International Civil Airport, which caused the Airport to go out of service and to the cessation of the UN air transport services and the operation of delivering the humanitarian aid to the earthquake-affected people in the affected provinces due to the earthquake, as the Airport constitutes the essential route to the delivery of the humanitarian aid.
Mikdad renewed Syrian warning to Israel and its sponsors against the danger of these hostile polices which drive the region towards a comprehensive escalation and a new phase of insecurity and instability, calling on the Security Council to abandon its silence and urgently assume its responsibilities to end the Israeli occupation of the Arab lands and implement the UN relevant resolutions, on top of which are the UN Security Council Resolutions no. 242 and no. 338 and the resolution no. 497, which considered Israel’s decision to impose its mandate on the Golan as null and void and has no legal effect.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency