Israeli oil company Afek Oil and Gas is illegally conducting oil exploration in the Occupied Syrian Golan. Afek’s parent company, US oil company Genie, includes Rupert Murdoch and Dick Cheney on its board of advisors.
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Bus loads of Israeli occupation forces arrive in Majdal Shams for a home demolition in September 2016.
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Mansura is one of the 340 villages and farms destroyed by the Israeli military following the occupation of the Syrian Golan in 1967. The land in Mansura is now used for grazing cattle by Israeli settlers.
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An Israeli tank positioned on Mount Hermon / Jabal al-Shaykh
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In 1993 Israel extended its exploitation of natural resources to wind. Turbines have been installed by Israeli companies, such as Mei Golan and Multimetrix, as well as a United States based company, AES Corporation. In 2014, the Ministry of National Infrastructures, Energy, and Water Resources also granted a conditional license to the Eurocom Group subsidiary Enlight Renewable Energy Solutions Ltd. for the production 400 megawatts of electricity from wind-driven turbines in the Occupied Syrian Golan.
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Israeli occupation forces opened fire across the ceasefire line at the protesters who had gathered to commemorate their expulsion from their homes following Israel’s occupation of Arab territories in 1967.
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On 9 September 2016 Al-Marsad submitted an objection to the “Hermon National Park” plan. The objection was submitted to the Israeli District Planning Committee in Nazareth, in the name of 40 people from the Syrian villages of Majdal Shams and Ein Qynia in the Occupied Syrian Golan.
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The consequences of this illegal exploitation for the economy of the Arab population of the Golan, in particular the farmers, are disastrous. The looting of natural resources is not only illegal under International Humanitarian Law; it also violates basic human rights, like the adequate standard of living, and the right to work.
On 15 December 2020, Al-Marsad met with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to share and discuss the latest developments of the Israeli wind turbine project, implemented by Israeli company “Energex” on private farmlands in the occupied Syrian Golan.
This is the culmination of several days of aggressive police action against Syrian civilians and farmers who were peacefully protesting against a wind turbine project developed by Energix Renewable Energies Ltd. (‘Energix’), an Israeli energy company, on Syrian agricultural land.
