The human rights state of affairs within the occupied Palestinian territories is “disastrous”, UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, mentioned yesterday.
Speaking throughout a gathering organised by the United Nations Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian Individuals, Bachelet mentioned: “Total, the current human rights state of affairs within the Occupied Palestinian Territory can pretty be characterised as disastrous, with extreme infringements on the rights of over 4 million individuals.”
“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.”
Palestinians now face elevated settler violence, she defined, on common, there may be nearly one incident of settler violence every day. She mentioned the justice system continues to fail to carry settlers accountable for violence towards Palestinians, including that “this lack of accountability for settler violence contributes to the elevated quantity and severity of assaults.”
Expressing explicit alarm on the recurring incidents of extreme use of drive resulting in the demise and harm of Palestinian youngsters, she mentioned that in 2021 Israeli forces have killed 16 youngsters within the West Financial institution, together with East Jerusalem. Bachelet mentioned her workplace additionally continues to obtain stories of the ill-treatment of youngsters throughout their arrest, switch, interrogation and detention by Israeli authorities.
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