are exposed to the arbitrary detention at the hands of Israeli occupation authorities due to their national stances.

He renewed Syria’s condemnation of the continued illegal arbitrary detention of the Syrian prisoners from the occupied Syrian Golan by the Israeli occupation authorities and demanded the immediate release of them, on top of them Sedki al-Maket.

Ala highlighted the Israeli violations of international law and human rights in the Golan through the illegal Israeli settlement and the adoption of measures to change the character and demographic composition of the occupied Syrian Golan which been condemned by the UN resolutions.

“At the same time, the occupation authorities continue to facilitate the construction of settlements and encourage foreign settlers to settle in the Golan providing financial and encouragement incentives to them in violation ofthe international humanitarian law,” Ala added.

Commenting on the Israeli officials’ statements on adhering to Israel’s illegal occupation of the Syrian Golan, Ala said that the Syrian Arab Republic rejects these statements which violate the UNSC resolution No.497 for 1981 and it considers that the continuation of suspicious silence about Israeli policies and practices that violate the international law, the 4th Geneva Convention and all UNSC resolutions encourages Israel to persist in supporting terrorist groups in the disengagement of forces zone in the Golan in order to prolong the war and strengthen the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan.

Ala said that Israel disregards all international resolutions condemning its practices in the occupied territories, calling on it to halt its settlement, end its occupation and withdraw from all occupied Palestinian