The principle is strict and the Syrian government is fully committed to implement all laws that prohibit the visit of Syrians to territories occupied by the Zionist entity.

No Syrian citizen had ever entered Occupied Palestine due to clear and historic reasons. The principle is strict and the Syrian government is fully committed to implement all laws that prohibit the visit of Syrians to territories occupied by the Zionist entity.

Syria, given its achievements during the crisis, spared no field without being the first to succeed in, even in the football game where results are crucial as they are in the military arena.

Syrian national football team won the West Asian Championship 2012 and raised its country's flag triumphantly despite of the equipment that were not enough before the tournament.

This time, it was the role of Syrian youth in the Asian playoffs for the World Cup. However, the team withdrew before the start of championship, not because of insufficient physical, technical or psychological preparation, but because "every Syrian citizen is forbidden from entering to the occupied Palestine through a crossing or outlet where an Israeli soldier stands," according to Maj. Gen. Muwaffaq Jumaa, Chairman of the Syrian Public Sports Federation.

The Syrian decision to withdraw from game was in the wake of choosing the occupied city of Ramallah for the Asian football matches playoffs of youth teams, Jumaa stated, noting that the Federation had earlier objected selecting Ramallah to host the tournament, "but the decision was made," he added, explaining that "a place occupied by the Zionist entity cannot put us under the Zionist mandate."

Players who are well prepared for the championship and hoped to take part in the World Cup, did not object to the decision because they are completely convinced in the sense of being under the supervision of their No.1 enemy and his command.

Several Arab countries like are Oman, Bahrain and Palestine will also participate in the playoffs.