NOURNEWS- The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution calling on the Israeli regime to withdraw from all territories it has occupied in the Golan Heights and return to the border internationally recognized prior to 1967.
Israel seized the Golan Heights, in southwest Syria, during the Six-Day War of 1967 and later occupied the territory. The regime has constructed dozens of illegal settlements in the Golan Heights and has turned the region into a launchpad for attacks against the Syrian government.
A total of 91 countries voted in favor of the UN General Assembly resolution on Tuesday. Eight countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, voted against it and 62 countries abstained.
The document “demands once more that Israel withdraw from all the occupied Syrian Golan to the line of 4 June 1967, in implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions.”
The UN Security Council resolution 497, adopted unanimously on December 17, 1981, declares the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights “null and void and without international legal effect".
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