UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, described, on Tuesday, the human rights scenario in occupied Palestinian territory as “disastrous.”
As she was briefing the UN Committee on the Train of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian Individuals, in Geneva, she argued: “This clearly additionally has damaging influence on prospects for peace and sustainable growth for Israel, in addition to the encompassing area.”
She added: “Regardless of how lengthy the highway has been, ‘endless’ can’t be an appropriate description for any scenario by which human rights are violated and abused.”
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“Solely an finish to the occupation can result in lasting peace and set up the situations by which the human rights of all will be totally revered.”
Bachelet additionally mentioned: “The individuals of Gaza additionally proceed to endure from a 15-year land, sea and air blockade carried out by Israel, with important infrastructure crumbling and a decaying sewer system.”
She added: “Extreme motion restrictions and obstructions to individuals’s entry to important items and companies, together with specialised healthcare, generate immense struggling.”
