UN Slams “Israel”: Gaza Deaths Shocking, Release Child Prisoners

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The UN human rights chief, Zeid Rsad Al Hussein, sharply condemned the apartheid “Israeli” entity, calling recent murders by its soldiers during Palestinian demonstrations along the Gaza border fence “shocking.”

In a video address to the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, he said that the situation in Gaza has escalated dramatically in recent months with “the potential to generate threats to peace across a far broader region.”

He further stated that there are “serious concerns” that “Israeli” accountability mechanisms don’t comply with international standards of “independence, impartiality, and effectiveness.”

“Very few investigations ever occur,” he said. “In the rare cases where an investigation has led to an indictment, the sentence has been extremely lenient in light of the gravity of the crime committed.”

The United Nations rights chief has called on Tel Aviv to release the some 440 Palestinian children it is holding in so-called administrative detention.

““Israel” should immediately charge, or release, all of them," said Zeid Raad Al Hussein on Monday, while noting that the Tel Aviv regime's administrative detention system is a "fundamental human rights violation."

 He added that based on international law the detention of minors should only be carried as a last resort.

"And whether for children or for adults, detention without trial, on evidence that is often kept secret, under often indefinitely renewable administrative detention orders, contravenes “Israel's” obligations under international law, and must come to an end," he added, while addressing a meeting focused on the recent surge of violence in the Gaza Strip.   

More than 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly held at “Israeli” jails. Hundreds of the inmates have apparently been incarcerated under the practice of administrative detention.

Some Palestinian prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to 11 years.

Palestinian inmates regularly stage hunger strikes in protest at the administrative detention policy and their harsh prison conditions in “Israeli” jails.

Zeid also slammed “Israel's” arbitrary detention and arrest of human rights activists.   

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team