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Published: 27 May 2021, 21:50
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen has called on the UN Human Rights Council to take decisive action towards ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international laws in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, reports UNB.
He was addressing a special session of the Human Rights Council on Palestine issue held virtually on Thursday.
Condemning strongly the illegal and belligerent actions by Israel, the foreign minister said that Israel must end its continued illegal occupation, unlawful settlement activities and annexation.
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English News and Press Release on occupied Palestinian territory about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding and Protection and Human Rights; published on 27 May 2021 by UN HRC
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2. Wide shot, Assembly Hall briefing
3. Chart of the votes
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan, President of the Human Rights Council:
“The results of the recorded votes are as follows: 24 in favour, nine against, 14 abstentions. Draft Resolution A/HRC/S-30/L.1 entitled ‘Ensuring respect for international human rights law and international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem and in Israel’ as orally revised is therefore adopted.”
5. Wide shot, Assembly Hall briefing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“According to figures verified by my Office, 242 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli Security Forces (the ISF) in strikes on Gaza, including 63 children. Thousands of others have been injured while it is estimated that over 74,000 Palestinians have been displaced. In the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, 28 Palestinians, including five childre
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It is possible China s rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, which lasts through May, will go down in history as the most significant test of the country s global leadership concerning humanitarian crisis management.
This presidency is taking place amidst the Israeli regime s violence against the Palestinian population, starting with the Israeli police assault of the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem during the holy month of Ramadan.
AFP Before a truce took hold last Friday, Israeli air strikes and artillery fire on Gaza killed 254 Palestinians, including 66 children. Palestinian supporters take part in a demonstration outside the Israel Centre where Israel supporters gathered in Johannesburg, 23 May 2021. Picture: Michel Bega
The UN Human Rights Council decided Thursday to create an open-ended international investigation into violations surrounding the latest Gaza violence, and into “systematic” abuses in the Palestinian territories and inside Israel.
The resolution, which passed with 24 of the council’s 47 members in favour, will spur an unprecedented level of scrutiny on abuses and their “root causes” in the decades-long Middle East conflict.