Palestinian Foreign Ministry calls on the international community to hold the Israeli occupation accountable for its crimes against the Palestinians

Occupied Al-Quds, (ST) – The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the international community to stand up to its responsibilities and hold the Israeli occupation accountable for its continuous violations against the Palestinian people. It also called on the international community to provide Palestinian people with international protection.

In a statement on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, which falls today and was reported by Wafa News Agency, the ministry explained that the United Nations Committee Against Torture considered the policy of forced displacement and demolition of Palestinian homes among the collective punishments imposed by the occupation authorities on the Palestinian people as a form of inhuman treatment with the aim of robbery of Palestinians’ right to self-determination.

The ministry considered that the policy of deliberate medical neglect by the occupation against the prisoners in its prisons, which led to the martyrdom of 72 Palestinian prisoners inside its prisons, in addition to the detention of the bodies of hundreds of martyrs, represents a flagrant violation of international covenants and conventions related to human rights, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention.

The ministry affirmed that these inhumane violations affect the basic rights of the Palestinians in violation of the provisions of international law and the resolutions of the United Nations and its committees. It stressedthat ending the suffering of the Palestinian people can only be done by ending the colonial occupation of the land of the State of Palestine.

Raghda Sawas