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Geneva, 20/7/2013 – (SANA-M. Ismael / H. Sabbagh) – Syria’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Dr. Fayssal al-Hamwi, said that since its occupation of the Syrian Golan in 1967, Israel has displaced around half a million of its original inhabitants and has been methodically violating the rights of the ones who remained, in addition to confiscating the lands of displaced citizens and giving them to settlers, imposing the Israeli identity on the Syrian people of Golan, and punishing those who defy it with life in prison and physical and psychological torture.
Al-Hamwi was speaking in a statement at the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) meeting being held in Geneva to discuss the economic and social repercussions of Israeli occupation on Palestinian people and the Arab people of the occupied Syrian Golan.
He added that there are still Syrian captives which have been detained for 28 years in Israeli prison…
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