UN Seeks to Protect Syrians — From Israel

 

The U.N. World Health Organization's annual assembly has adopted only one resolution targeting a particular country — citing Israel for its treatment of Syrians in the Golan Heights.

At its May gathering in Geneva, the WHO passed a resolution entitled "Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan," The Jerusalem Post reported.

The resolution called on the director general of the WHO to "provide health-related technical assistance to the Syrian population in the occupied Syrian Golan."

There was no mention by the international health group of the ongoing civil war in Syria that has claimed the lives of more than 80,000 and displaced millions of Syrians, U.N. Watch observed.

WHO received a report from the Bashar Assad regime in Syria that called on the organization to "intervene immediately and take effective measures to end inhuman practices that target the health of Syrian citizens."

Syria's population is about 22 million, while only about 20,000 Syrians live in the Golan Heights, which was captured during the 1967 Six Day War and formally annexed by Israel in 1981.

The United States was one of just four nations voting against the resolution, along with Israel, Canada, and Australia. The vote was 53 to 4, with 50 abstentions.

Israel issued a statement citing the "ongoing deteriorating situation in Syria, especially with regard to the health situation of the people of Syria."

The statement also said the World Health Organization's focus on the health conditions in the Golan Heights is "an absurd example of the way the assembly's agenda is cynically abused."

And Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch, declared: "To see the Assad regime point the finger at Israel out of professed concern for the health of Syrians is, frankly, a sick joke."

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