A/HRC/19/46 (1981), and for implementation of the principle of land for peace, in order to ensure the full withdrawal by Israel from all of the occupied Syrian Golan to the line of 4 June 1967. 5. In its note verbale, the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic strongly condemned the killing by Israel of peaceful demonstrators who had sought to remind the international community of their right to return to their homeland after four decades of occupation. The Syrian Arab Republic noted the incident of 5 June 2011, when peaceful Syrian and Palestinian demonstrators commemorating Naksa were shot by Israeli troops on the Syrian side of the ceasefire line, resulting in 23 dead and 350 wounded. The Syrian Arab Republic also pointed out that similar crimes were committed on 15 May 2011 during the commemoration of Nakba, near the ceasefire line with the occupied Golan. It stated that Israeli forces had used live ammunition to disperse peaceful protestors, resulting in 15 dead and dozens of wounded. 6. In its note verbale, the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic condemned the construction by Israel of a barrier near the ceasefire line, in front of the occupied village of Majdal Shams, as well as campaigns that promote settlement building in the occupied Golan, the latest of which was in December 2010 under the title of “Come to Golan” with the aim of attracting more Israeli settler families to Golan. It deplored the establishment of a new tourist settlement near the settlement of It’am in cooperation with the extremist settlement of Yobatan. The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic condemned the arrival of more settlers to the Golan in the name of “tourist cities” in the al-Batiha region located in the south of the occupied Golan, particularly in the area of Tal Sayadin on the eastern shore of Lake Tiberias. It condemned the organization of tourist trips by international Jewish organizations to the Golan and the promotion of settlements, and the development of infrastructure to service those settlements. It stated that these actions clearly demonstrate the disregard by Israel for peace and for the decisions of the Security Council and the General Assembly. 7. The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic condemned the distribution by the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations in New York of products from the occupied Syrian Golan, and stressed that such behaviour constituted a flagrant violation of Security Council resolution 497 (1981) and General Assembly resolution 65/179 entitled “Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources”. 8. In its note verbale, the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic deplored the fact that, in December 2010, Israel had confiscated water sources from the occupied Golan in order to allocate water exclusively to Israeli settlers, resulting in a financial loss of more than $20 million for the Syrian nationals of the Golan, whose livelihoods depend on farming and fishing. The Government believes that this was a deliberate violation of human rights of the Syrian residents of the Golan and constituted a violation of paragraph 7 of Security Council resolution 465 (1980), in which the Council called for the protection of the natural resources of the territories under occupation, including water, and of paragraph 5 of the said resolution, in which the Council determined that all measures taken by Israel to change the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure or status of the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, or any part thereof, had no legal validity and that Israel's policy and practices of settling parts of its population and new immigrants in those territories constituted a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and also constituted a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East. 9. In its note verbale, the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic rejected the decision made on 22 October 2010 by the Israeli Knesset to mandate a referendum on any 3