Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
Damascus, SANA- Syria condemns Israeli flagrant attacks on countries of the region, denounces war crimes and mass genocide perpetrated by Zionist entity, said Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Bassam Sabbagh.
Sabbagh, during a ministerial emergency virtual meeting of The Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations, called for the necessity of taking firm, effective and immediate measures to stop the crimes and violations of international law and international humanitarian law by the Zionist entity.
He affirmed the necessity of bringing perpetrators of Israeli war crimes and genocide to justice and ensuring that they do not escape punishment.
“Syria renews its firm stance in support of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, returning to their homeland, establishing their independent state, and ending the Israeli occupation of all Arab lands occupied since June 1967, including the occupied Syrian Golan,” Sabbagh said.
“The Israeli occupation forces are intending to expand the scope of their aggression on countries of our region, by targeting brotherly Lebanon, this coincided with its launch of almost daily attacks on Syrian territory, targeting buildings and residential neighborhoods that include headquarters, diplomatic missions, and offices of the United Nations and economic facilities and vital infrastructure, not to mention the occupying entity’s deliberate targeting of border crossings, roads and bridges connecting Syria and Lebanon, which are used by hundreds of thousands of people coming from Lebanon to escape the Israeli killing machine,” the Minister elaborated.
He added that the occupation’s continued crimes against the Palestinian people, including murder, destruction of infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, etc., forced displacement, deliberate targeting of humanitarian personnel and journalists, attempts to insult the United Nations and its Secretary-General, and banning UNRWA’s work in the Palestinian territories, all represent grave violations of international law and the rules of the United Nations Charter.
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