Qatar To Support Rehabilitation Of Syria, Calls Israel To Withdraw

Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has affirmed support for the rehabilitation of Syria’s infrastructure, ravaged by the civil war in the last 14 years, during his first to Damascus after the Islamist-led forces seized power against Assad’s forces.

Sheikh Mohammed said to provide necessary technical support for infrastructural operation and electricity support to Damascus. The agreement to supply power with a capacity of 200 megawatts has been agreed with a gradual increment in production.

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Qatar has extended its hand for future partnerships, said Sheikh Mohammed, and showed commitment to continue to provide public services to the Syrian people.

Notably, the United States has eased some sanctions on Syria which made the possibility of supply of power ships increase supply. The US and EU both imposed sanctions on al-Assad and his government for allegedly committing crimes during the civil war.

Qatar never restored diplomatic ties with Syria under the ousted president Bashar Al Assad and backed the armed rebellion after the uprising of 2011.

The same day the Assad regime was toppled, Israel crossed the armistice line and entered into a UN-patrolled buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces on the strategic Golan Heights since 1974.

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Sheikh Mohammed while speaking at a press conference in Damascus criticized Israeli moves to occupy the territory near the Golan Heights in Southern Syria.

“The Israeli occupation’s seizure of the buffer zone is a reckless … act, and it must immediately withdraw,” Sheikh Mohammed said.

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