The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on Wednesday condemned the Israeli adopted and applied measures against the civilian citizens in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan.
In a resolution adopted by the WHO on the health and economic situation in the occupied territories, the Organization referred to Israel's hindering of the construction of health centers and the transfer of medicine, hampering ambulance services and preventing the patients and wounded people from reaching hospitals.
The WHO resolution called on the international community to put pressure on Israel to lift the siege and stop hindering the improvement of the health situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and Syrian Golan, including the establishment of a health insurance system for the Arab people under the occupation.
It also urged the international community to not recognize the Israeli measures which are part of an Israeli systematic racial policy against the Arab citizens in the occupied territories.
The international community was called upon, along with the relevant international organizations, to offer all kinds of health and technical support to the health centers in the occupied land.
In an interposition by the Syrian delegation to the WHO meeting, Syria's Permanent Envoy to the United Nations in Geneva Fayssal al-Hamwi stressed that what the civilian citizens in the Occupied Syrian Golan are exposed to can't be ignored as it contradicts with their simplest right to getting the necessary healthcare.
Al-Hamwi pointed out that Syria's continuous efforts through communication with the international and humanitarian organizations working in the health domain for the establishment of health facilities in the occupied Syrian Golan under the supervision of the Syrian Red Crescent have always been opposed by Israel.
The Syrian Envoy called for immediate intervention by the WHO to address the health situation there and to urge the international community to force Israel to commit to the international law, the International Humanitarian Law and Geneva Convention in this regard.
He expressed Syria's deep concern on the delay of the issuance of the WHO Director-General's report on the health and economic situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and Syrian Golan.
Al-Hamwi called on the WHO Director-General to form a work team to visit the occupied Golan as soon as possible to get acquainted with the health situation and the Syrian people's suffering and to find mechanism for the implementation of what came in the paragraph 5/3/ of the resolution of the WHO which calls for the establishment of health and medical centers and provide health-related technical assistance for the Syrian citizens in Golan.
"The suffering of the Syrian and Arab prisoners in the Israeli jails can't be ignored as they are subjected to physical and psychological torture under inhuman arrest conditions," said al-Hamwi.
He also referred to the grave dangers of the Israeli landmines which claimed the lives of many Golan citizens causing permanent disabilities, particularly among children.
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