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Agricultural produce and cattle were also subjected to confiscation and the Israeli authorities continued to exercise tight control over the water resources available to the inhabitants of the Golan, including rainwater.
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It was informed that the measures taken against citizens who express nationalistic sentiments regarding Syria were repressed more harshly than before and that land in the occupied Syrian Golan continued to be confiscated for the expansion of Israeli settlements and the construction of bypass roads.
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The beginning of construction on 18 March 1997 of the so-called Har Homa settlement in that location, which would complete the chain of Israeli settlements hermetically encircling Arab-populated East Jerusalem, has brought the peace process to a standstill.ĭuring its visit to the Syrian Arab Republic, the Special Committee observed that one of the most striking features of the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Arab Golan was the severance of family ties. New settlements have been built and the most serious development in this connection is the decision taken on 26 February 1997 to build 6,500 Jewish housing units on the hill called Jabal Abu Ghneim. Settlement expansion in the occupied Syrian Arab Golan is also foreseen. New settlements have been built and their total in the Gaza Strip and West Bank is now estimated at 194. The confiscation of Arab-owned land, expansion of settlements and construction of bypass roads and quarries has continued unabated. On 2 August 1996, the Cabinet decided to cancel the previous Government's restrictions placed on the development of settlements since 1992. The most disturbing aspect of the current human rights situation in the occupied territories is the settlement policy pursued by the Israeli Government. These periodic reports have been submitted in accordance with paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 51/131, in which the Assembly requested the Special Committee to submit regularly to the Secretary-General periodic reports on the current situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem. Written information concerning the period from 1 January to 30 April 1997 is reflected in the periodic report the Special Committee presented to you on (A/52/131/Add.1). Written information concerning the period from 21 September to 31 December 1996 is reflected in the periodic report the Special Committee presented to you on 19 February 1997 (A/52/131). It also includes oral information received by the Special Committee through testimonies of persons having first-hand experience of the human rights situation in the occupied territories. The report is based on written information gathered from various sources, in particular Israeli press reports and articles appearing in the Arab press published in the occupied territories. The present report covers the period from 21 September 1996, the date of the adoption of the twenty-seventh report of the Special Committee, to 29 August 1997. Information concerning the occupied Syrian Arab Golan. Other information concerning detainees …………. Measures concerning the release of detainees ……. Measures affecting certain fundamental freedoms …. Harassment and physical ill-treatment ………. Incidents resulting from the occupation …………Īdministration of justice, including the right General developments and policy statements ……… INFORMATION AND EVIDENCE RECEIVED BY THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE.