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Letter from Al-Marsad to EU Delegation to Israel, EU Member State embassies and embassies of the Permanent Members of the UN Security Council, regarding the planned construction of 1600 settlement units in the illegal settlement of Katzrin, and the appropriation of Syrian land under the guise of the ‘Hermon National Park’ plan, in the Occupied Syrian Golan

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In November 2016, Al-Marsad wrote to the EU Delegation to Israel, EU Member State embassies and embassies of the Permanent Members of the UN Security Council, to inform them that the Israeli Finance Ministry has approved plans for the construction of 1600 settlement units in the illegal Israeli settlement of Katzrin in the Occupied Syrian Golan. In addition, the letter outlined how the Israeli authorities are seeking to expropriate over 20,000 acres of land that has been used by the native Syrian residents of Majdal Shams and Ein Qynia since Ottoman rule for agriculture and urbanization. The letter calls on these countries, to strongly condemn plans for the construction of 1600 settlement units in the illegal settlement of Katzrin and the planned expropriation of Syrian land under the guise of the ‘Hermon National Park’ plan; and along with their international partners, obtain binding commitments from Israeli that it will stop these activities.

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