Syria to issue ID cards to Golan residents

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

DAMASCUS (AFP) — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has ordered ID cards to be granted to Syrians citizens living in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday.

"The Syrian president has issued orders to grant Syrian ID cards to Syrian citizens of the occupied Golan Heights," the official news agency reported.

The move aims to "ease the suffering" of the Druze people living on the Golan, caused by "harassment and Israeli human rights violations," SANA added.

The Golan Heights was occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War and unilaterally annexed in 1981 despite UN Security Council resolutions demanding a withdrawal from occupied territories in exchange for peace.

More than 18,000 Syrians -- most of them Druze, a...

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