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Amid increasing bloodshed and volatility in Gaza and Israel, UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet on Saturday appealed for a de-escalation in tensions and urged all sides to respect international law.
Amid increasing bloodshed and volatility in Gaza and Israel, UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet on Saturday appealed for a de-escalation in tensions and urged all sides to respect international law.
“Over the past 10 days, the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel has deteriorated at an alarming rate,” she said in a statement.
Ms Bachelet added that “rather than seeking to calm tensions, inflammatory rhetoric from leaders on all sides appears to be seeking to excite tensions rather than to calm them.”
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United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, says the mounting death toll, including children in the Palestine-Israel conflict is totally unacceptable.
According to the UN chief, de-escalation of the conflict is “an absolute must”.
Before now, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process in November 2019, spelled out to the Security Council that regardless of any national policy declarations, Israeli settlement activities are “a flagrant violation under international law”,
Regretting the United States’ announcement that it “no longer views settlements as inconsistent with international law”, Nickolay Mladenov told the 15-member Council that “the UN position remains unchanged”.
And he called the settlements “a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-State solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace”.