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Syria urges UN to push for Israel's withdrawal from Golan Heights

Xinhua, February 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Syrian government on Thursday urged the UN Security Council to undertake necessary legal measures to push Israel to withdraw from the occupied Golan Heights, according to the state news agency SANA.

The demand came in a letter sent by the Syrian Foreign Ministry to the Security Council, urging the later to enforce its resolutions pertaining to Israel's full withdrawal from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights to the July 1967 borderline "to end the bloody Israeli practices and Israel's ongoing violation to the UN Charters and humanitarian law."

The Foreign Ministry also complained to the Security Council over Israel's re-arrest of Sudki al-Makt, a former Syrian prisoner in Israel, from the town of Majdal Shames in Golan Heights.

"Al-Makt had been a prisoner in Israeli jails for 27 years without legal or ethical grounds before he was set free in August 2012," said SANA, adding that al-Makt's re-arrest in the early hours of Wednesday is a crime that "adds to a long list of Israeli transgressions against the Syrian people."

Syria has technically been in a state of war with Israel since its creation in 1948. Their enmity has risen with the Syrian administration rendering support to the Hezbollah.

Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Arab-Israel war and roughly 100,000 Syrians fled the Golan Heights.

Syria fought another war in 1973 after which it regained small parts of land that Israel occupied six years earlier. Endit