Residents of the occupied Golan Heights have staged a
demonstration to express their fierce opposition to the Tel Aviv
regimes plan to completely raze a village in the strategic plateau
to build a military base, in a blatant violation of international
law.
According to a report by Syrias official news agency,
SANA, protesters rejected the demolition of the remaining
homes in the village of Ain Fiet, whose residents were forcibly
displaced by the Israeli regime over the past years.
The Zionist entity aims to obliterate the national identity,
establish a military outpost on our lands and Judaize them, the
protesters said.
They said the regimes scheme to raze the village is contrary to
the United Nations Security Council resolution 497.
The UN resolution, adopted unanimously on December 17, 1981,
declares that the Israeli annexation of the occupied Golan Heights
is null and void and without international legal effect and further
calls on the Tel Aviv regime to rescind its action.
The protesters further reiterated their devotion to their
homeland and Syrian identity in the face of the Israeli regimes
practices, including arbitrary arrests and systematic
oppression.
In 1967, Israel waged a full-scale war against Arab territories,
during which it occupied a large area of the Golan and annexed it
four years later a move never recognized by the international
community.
Israeli forces destroyed Ain Fiet, one of the most fertile and
beautiful villages in the Syrian Golan Heights, following the 1967
Six-Day War.
Nearly 131,000 people living there were forcibly displaced,
while 7,000 people opted to remain in six other nearby villages,
namely Majdal Shams, Masada, Baqatha, Ain Qunya, Ghajar and
Sahita.
Later on, the Israeli military razed Sahita village and turned
it into a military post. It forced its local residents to abandon
the village and move to Masada.
In 1973, another war broke out and a year later, the United
Nations brokered a ceasefire and established a buffer zone between
the Israeli and Syrian forces. The UN also adopted several
resolutions calling for Israels withdrawal from the Golan, but the
regime has ignored them.
Earlier this month, Israel further occupied Ghajar village by
erecting fences to the north of the area, cutting it off completely
from Lebanon.
Last month, dozens of residents and landowners in the towns of
Majdal Shams and Masadeh were prevented from reaching their lands
by Israeli forces, leading to confrontations.
The Israeli forces have raided the farmlands to install wind
turbines, which according to the farmers, could pose
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