Hamas Condemns Israeli Forces’ Measures in Occupied Golan
In a statement on Wednesday, Hamas reiterated solidarity with the people of Syria’s occupied Golan, al-Ahed News reported.
The resistance movement added that all policies of the occupiers will end in failure in the face of the willpower of the Palestinian nation and other Arab nations.
The statement added that Arab and Muslim nations are steadfast in their pledge to continue the struggle until the destruction of occupiers.
On Wednesday, dozens of people were injured after Israeli military forces attacked the residents of the Golan Heights opposed to the Tel Aviv regime’s plan to install wind turbines in the occupied Syrian territory.
Hundreds of people staged a protest in the Hafayer area for the second consecutive day to defend their farmlands from the wind turbine project and confronted Israeli troops.
According to Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television news network, Israeli soldiers disproportionately used rubber bullets and tear gas canisters against the unarmed protesters in order to disperse the crowd.
Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that dozens of people were injured as a result. Several were listed in serious and critical condition.
Israeli forces also arrested more than 10 young protesters and prevented medical staff as well as ambulances from reaching those injured during the skirmishes.
Local sources added that the Israeli army called in large reinforcements and sealed off all roads leading to the Hafayer area.
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.
In 1973, another war broke out, and a year later, an UN-brokered ceasefire came into force, according to which Tel Aviv and Damascus agreed to separate their troops and create a buffer zone in the heights.
However, Israel has over the past several decades come up with dozens of illegal settlements in the occupied Golan in defiance of international calls for the regime to stop its illegal construction activities there.
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