Work on the construction of wind turbines in the occupied Golan Heights resumed on Thursday morning after an order by so-called National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in this regard.
Israeli occupation police stated that, despite Israeli media reports that a freeze of the work had originally been ordered by the chief of police, no such order had been issued.
Earlier on Wednesday, Syrians in occupied Golan clashed with Israeli police over the construction of wind turbines in the occupied heights.
Syrian media reported that hundreds of Syrian citizens gathered near al-Hafayer area, near the town of Majdal Shams, in rejection of the occupation scheme to establish wind turbines on their agricultural lands.
Israeli occupation brought large reinforcements and closed all roads leading to the al-Hafayer, where wind turbines are to be built, SANA news agency reported.
Four demonstrators were seriously injured, one of them from gunfire, along with three moderately and one lightly. Twelve Israeli occupation police officers were wounded, Israeli media reported.
The mayor of the Druze town of Daliyat al-Karmel, Rafik Halabi, told several Hebrew media outlets that the protests could spiral into an “intifada” and that the community was experiencing “great fury” at Israel’s policies and planning laws, according to The Times of Israel.
Source: Agencies
