Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council considered in a decision today all Israel's decisions on Syrian Golan Heights as null and void, citing its building of settlements, demorphological changes on the ground, prevention of the displaced to return to their homes, confiscation of their properties, imposing of Israeli nationality and identification cards on Syrian nationals, oppression practices against them and other practicies hindering their enjoying their basic, political, civil, economic, cultural and social rights. The Human Rights Council also called on Israel to immediately release Syrian prisoners from its prisons as some of them were staying behind bars for 26 years. The decision says that all legislative and administrative arrangements taken or to be taken by Israel seeking to change the legal status of the occupied Golan Heights, including the Israeli parliament's decision to hold a referendum before any withdrawal from the Golan Heights as null and void which also consitutes a flagrant violation of the international law as well as to Geneva Convention on Protection of Civilians During War.
