News - Middle East - Syria: The Arab League has strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s plan to double the number of settler units in the Tel Aviv-occupied side of Syria’s Golan Heights.

The pan-Arab body’s Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Tuesday reacted to a blueprint approved by the Israeli regime foreseeing construction of some 7,300 additional housing units on the strategic plateau.

Aboul Gheit said the plan amounted to a “flagrant violation” of international law, which recognizes the Golan Heights as Syrian territory.

Syria and the Israeli regime are technically at war due to the latter’s 1967-present occupation of the plateau. The Israeli regime maintains a significant military presence in the territory, which it uses as a launch pad for its attacks on Syrian soil.

Aboul Gheit also said that the fact that some countries recognize “Israeli sovereignty” over Golan does not change the reality that it is an occupied territory.

The official was referring to a 2019 decree signed by former US President Donald Trump, which controversially recognized Golan as “Israeli territory.”

The Arab League chief said Syria’s territorial integrity was not subject to compromise, irrespective of the current developments in Syria and its status in the Arab League.

Syria itself condemned the Israeli plan on Monday, describing it as a “dangerous and unprecedented escalation.”

Source: Press TV