Al-Marsad

Al-Marsad has published detailed legal studies on behalf of affected individuals in the Golan Heights, concerning: forced evictions and internal displacement, the illegality of family separation, parallel reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, including advocacy before the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concerning human rights abuses,^[10] economic occupation,^[11] and Israeli violations of international law.^[12]

Al-Marsad has also voiced concern over what it deems Israel's "ethnic cleansing" of the Syrian Arab population in the Golan.^[4] 130,000 Syrian Arabs from the Golan Heights were expelled or fled to Syria following Israel's capture of the territory in 1967. Most villages were also destroyed by Israeli forces, leaving six villages and 23,000 Syrian residents remaining in the Golan.^[13]

Al-Marsad has reported that Israeli settlers receive five times the amount of water than the area's Syrian farmers do,^[14] and that land has been expropriated for Israeli settlements.^[15] Al-Marsad has also reported that Arab residents, moreover, pay more taxes to Israel than their Israeli counterparts while receiving fewer services.^[15]

Al-Marsad campaigns against Israel's (de facto) annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights.^[16]

• Israel–Syria relations
• UN Security Council Resolution 452
• UN Security Council Resolution 465
• UN Security Council Resolution 471
• UN Security Council Resolution 497