HRW condemns Israel’s brutality towards Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem
Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday that Israel’s brutality towards protesters in Jerusalem is the result of systematic practice of excessive force.
The condemnation comes two weeks after the HRW published a report affirming that the Israeli occupation authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.
The 213-page report, “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution,” examines Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. It presents the present-day reality of a single authority, the Israeli government, ruling primarily over the area between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, populated by two groups of roughly equal size, and methodologically privileging Jewish Israelis while repressing Palestinians, most severely in the occupied territory.
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https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/04/27/abusive-israeli-policies-constitute-crimes-apartheid-persecution
Basma Qaddour