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Bus loads of Israeli occupation forces arrive in Majdal Shams for a home demolition in September 2016.

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.

An Israeli tank positioned on Mount Hermon / Jabal al-Shaykh

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.

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.

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.