1.
Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with the relevant resolutions of
the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Human Rights Council, in particular
Security Council resolution 497 (1981), in which the Council decided, inter alia, that the decision
of Israel to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan was
null and void and without international legal effect, and demanded that Israel should rescind
forthwith its decision;
2.
Also calls upon Israel to desist from changing the physical character, demographic
composition, institutional structure and legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan, and
emphasizes that the displaced persons of the population of the occupied Syrian Golan must be
allowed to return to their homes and to recover their property;
3.
Further calls upon Israel to desist from imposing Israeli citizenship and Israeli
identity cards on the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan, and to desist from its
repressive measures against them and from all other practices that obstruct the enjoyment of their
fundamental rights and their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, some of which
are mentioned in the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting
the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories;
4.
Calls upon Israel to allow the Syrian population of the occupied Syrian Golan to visit
their families and relatives in the Syrian motherland through the Quneitra checkpoint and under
the supervision of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and to rescind its decision to
prohibit these visits, as it is in flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
5.
Also calls upon Israel to release immediately the Syrian detainees in Israeli prisons,
some of whom have been detained for more than 23 years, and calls on Israel to treat them in
conformity with international humanitarian law;
6.
Further calls upon Israel, in this connection, to allow delegates of the International
Committee of the Red Cross to visit Syrian prisoners of conscience and detainees in Israeli
prisons accompanied by specialized physicians to assess the state of their physical and mental
health and to protect their lives;
7.
Determines that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken or to be
taken by Israel, the occupying Power, that aim to alter the character and legal status of the
occupied Syrian Golan are null and void, constitute a flagrant violation of international law and
of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of
12 August 1949, and have no legal effect;
8.
Again calls upon States Members of the United Nations not to recognize any of the
above-mentioned legislative or administrative measures;
9.
Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the attention of all
Governments, the competent United Nations organs, specialized agencies, international and
regional intergovernmental organizations and international humanitarian organizations, to
disseminate it as widely as possible and to report on this matter to the Council at its
thirteenth session;
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