UN report reveals Israel conduct in the occupied Golan
Syria-Israel, Politics, 7/7/2005

The UN facts finding commission on the Israeli practices of violating human rights in the occupied Arab lands, including the Golan, stressed that conditions of Arabs living under the Israeli occupation have been continuously deteriorating since the formation of the committee in 1968 to the present time.

The chairman of the fact finding commission, who is Sri Lanka permanent resident representative and Ambassador to the UN, Prasad Kariyawasam said that available information provided to the committee indicate that conditions of the Arab citizens in the occupied lands are worsening especially in the light of "building the wall of separation" and the Israeli practices in demolishing houses," noting simultaneously that acts of detention carried out against Arabs under occupation. He said that his statements are based on testimonies given by witnesses to the committee.

He continued that "since Israel had categorically rejected to collaborate with the committee and to give it access to information and people to serve to this end, the committee aspires its information from the governments of Israel's neighboring states. This is conducted via telephone calls with witnesses in the occupied lands and representatives for the civilian commissions and human rights activists."

The committee started its five day tour in the region in order to prepare its annual report including Beirut, Damascus, Amman and Cairo.

In Damascus, the delegation met with the Syrian deputy foreign minister Walid al-Mu'allim who called on the "international community and members of the UN Security Council to shoulder their responsibility to pressure Israel and force it to implement UN Security Council resolutions so as to enhance the role of the UN at the international arena." The director of foreign organizations department at the foreign ministry Faisal al-Hamwi handed over the commission Syria's report of the violations of the Israeli forces of the Syrians in the occupied Golan Heights. The report read that "the Israeli occupation authorities steals the Golan's antiquities ruins with the aims of falsifying the facts of history and changing the Arab language curricula by a Hebrew one" and "placing obstacles before Syrians youths of the Golan to head for their homeland Syria to pursue university studies," as well as "removing fertile soil of the Golan to the Israeli settlements and dumping poisonous wastes and radioactive chemicals of the Israeli wastes in the lands of the Golan."

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