A/HRC/43/69 Jerusalem. Furthermore, in addition to imposing limitations on access to health, the Israeli occupying authorities had also imposed a series of other obstacles to the establishment of new medical centres, compelling the population of the occupied Syrian Golan to seek medical services in the occupied Palestinian Territories. Despite the lack of services in the occupied Syrian Golan, taxes continued to be imposed on the population, including through the patients’ fund and medical centres taxes. The Israeli occupation authorities exploited the refusal of the population of the occupied Syrian Golan to obtain Israeli citizenship as an excuse not to grant it access to health services. 23. The Syrian Arab Republic added that the Israeli occupation authorities had, as part of their “cultural war” and specifically their attempts to obliterate Arab culture, continued to impose Israeli curricula and teaching in the Hebrew language instead of teaching in the Arabic language on the population in the occupied Syrian Golan. They also imposed the use of study materials that promoted sectarianism, aimed to sever any links that Arab Syrian students may have with their Arab culture and their religion (Islam) and, ultimately, to undermine Arab Syrian students’ identity. Such attempts were facilitated by the appointment of incompetent teachers to further entrench control of the educational process and undermine the national sentiment of the Arab Syrian students. Moreover, the Israeli occupation authorities continued to prevent young Arab Syrian students from completing their university education, including by restricting their travel and access to Syrian universities. 24. The Syrian Arab Republic stressed that the detention conditions of Syrian Arabs in Israeli prisons had continued to worsen and were in blatant violation of international conventions and the relevant United Nations resolutions. Specifically, detained Syrian Arabs were denied access to adequate medical care and were subjected to solitary confinement, administrative detention and torture. The very location of the detention centres in Nagev and Nafha complicated visits by relatives due to their remoteness. Reports had been received of mock trials, such as in the case of an Israeli military court sentencing “the dean of Syrian detainees”, Sidqi al-Maqt, to 14 years of imprisonment in April 2017 for his opposition to Israeli occupation and his condemnation of the support provided by the Israeli occupation authorities to terrorist groups in the occupied Syrian Golan, including the Nusra Front. The Israeli occupation authorities had continued to prevent the family of Sidqi al-Maqt from visiting him, a clear violation of his basic rights. 25. The Syrian Arab Republic noted that the deliberate policy of medical negligence in Israeli detention centres had resulted in several deaths resulting from diseases that were difficult to diagnose. Moreover, a number of detainees, including Hayel Abu Zeid, Seitan al-Wali and Fares Assad Abdel Wali, had died shortly after their release from Israeli prisons. 26. The Syrian Arab Republic stressed that the policies and practices of the Israeli occupation authorities were in blatant violation of the economic, social and cultural rights of the Syrian Arab population of the occupied Syrian Golan, including the right to work, the right to education, the right to property, the right to freedom of movement, the right to preserve cultural and historical heritage and the right to the highest attainable standard of health. The racist and discriminatory practices of the Israeli occupation authorities were a threat to the future existence, growth and development of the population of the occupied Syrian Golan. 27. The Syrian Arab Republic called upon the international community not to remain silent in the face of the systematic violations that the Israeli occupation authorities continued to commit, adding that those policies aimed at legitimizing the occupation of the Syrian Golan and at changing the demographic, geographic, cultural, security and political composition of the occupied Syrian Golan. 28. The Syrian Arab Republic reiterated its long-standing position and called upon the United Nations and Member States to put pressure on Israel to end its occupation of the occupied Syrian Golan, in line with international law. It also urged Member States not to recognize any legal status resulting from clear violations of international law and not to provide any support to the Israeli occupation authorities, specifically in terms of 6