No Script

Please Wait...

Ramadan Kareem...

‘Israel’ Persecutes Palestinian People - UN Report

‘Israel’ Persecutes Palestinian People - UN Report
folder_openPalestine access_timeone year ago
starAdd to favorites

By Staff, Agencies

The Zionist entity’s actions against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank amount to “persecution”, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories said in a report released to the public on Tuesday.

“Realizing the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination requires dismantling once and for all the ‘Israeli’ settler-colonial occupation and its apartheid practices,” UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese, wrote.

The report, dated 21 September 2022, details the ‘Israeli’ efforts to stamp out the Palestinian collective identity and sovereignty, noting the 13 May 2022 attack by ‘Israeli’ forces on Palestinian pallbearers carrying their national flag during the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

Albanese also documents the use of lethal force against journalists and humanitarian workers critical of the ‘Israeli’ entity, along with the detention of Palestinian political leaders. The report discusses the recent case of Salah Hammouri, a French-Palestinian lawyer from occupied al-Quds who was detained without charges or trial since 7 March 2022 on allegations of ‘terrorism.’

According to the report, almost 4,500 Palestinians are currently detained, 730 without any charge, while children as young as the age of 12 have been victims of arbitrary arrest and detention - 500 to 700 minors are held every year by the Zionist government.

In August, ‘Israeli’ occupation forces closed the offices of seven Palestinian civil society rights groups in the occupied West Bank. The report called the move an abuse of counter-terrorism legislation.

“This appears to be an attempt to further shrink, if not outright ban, space for human rights monitoring and legal opposition to the ‘Israeli’ occupation in the Palestinian territory.”

Albanese said it was time for a “paradigm shift” in the ‘Israeli’ relations with the international community.

She critiqued efforts by regional states to normalize ties with the ‘Israeli’ entity, calling the attempts “ineffective” because “they have not focused their approaches on human rights, particularly the right to self-determination, and have overlooked the settler-colonial underpinnings of the ‘Israeli’ occupation.”

Comments