Euro-Med Monitor: European countries opposition to investigate violations in oPt obstructs justice
GENEVA, Wednesday, June 02, 2021 (WAFA) - Three European countries have voted against the Human Rights Council s decision to establish an international independent investigation commission to probe Israel s human rights violations, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said today in a statement. Such an attitude would undermine efforts aiming to bring accountability and achieve justice, it said.
Euro-Med Monitor has sent written letters to foreign ministers in Germany, Britain, and Austria, expressing deep concern over their votes against forming an investigation committee.
Chairman of Euro-Med Monitor Ramy Abdu said in the letter that we find it disappointing that multiple European council members either abstained or voted against an impartial effort towards transparency and accountability .
Sunday, 23 May 2021, 4:59 pm Geneva - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said
that the Israeli forces indiscriminate shelling operations
with their tanks, artillery, and warships towards the
eastern and western Gaza Strip violates the rules of
international humanitarian law and may constitute war
crimes.
The Geneva-based Euro-Med Monitor confirmed
in a press release on Friday that the indiscriminate bombing
operations carried out during the 11-day Israeli military
attack breach the international humanitarian law standards,
especially regarding the principles of distinction,
proportionality, and military necessity.
Euro-Med
Monitor stated that its field team documented the Israeli
artillery s participation in indiscriminate bombing
operations since early days of the massive Israeli operation
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Updated report on the Israeli mass killings of families during the military attack on Gaza
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Geneva – The Israeli Army has killed and maimed many Palestinians in deliberate targeting of unprotected homes with families inside in inhumane military operations, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said.
Since the beginning of the current Israeli bombing blitz, the Israeli forces targeted 31 extended families: 21 homes of families were bombed and destroyed with families being inside; two civil gatherings of family members were targeted; a man and his wife were stuck inside their car, and a man and his son were targeted in agricultural land.
So far, the reported incidents have left 96 Palestinians killed, including 44 children and 28 women.