Mansour: The Need to Follow up on All Israeli Human Rights Violations in The Occupied Palestinian Territory to Achieve Justice and Accountability

The Permanent Representative of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, stressed the need to follow up on all Israeli violations of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian territories, continue to inform the international community about them, and demand justice and accountability to stop them.

According to WAFA News Agency, during his meeting with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the sidelines of the General Assembly Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Mansour drew attention to the catastrophic humanitarian situation that the Palestinian people are still facing in the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression, especially with the approach of winter and Israel’s ban on the entry and distribution of humanitarian aid.

He pointed to the dangerous situation in the northern Gaza Strip and the targeting of civilians through shelling, starvation and the issuance of evacuation orders, which are death and execution orders for the Palestinian people.

Mansour recalled the United Nations General Assembly’s endorsement of a resolution adopting the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the illegality of the Israeli occupation and the need to end it without delay, in particular the item on the establishment of a mechanism for investigating violations in occupied Palestine.

The General Assembly Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs discussed the report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and  on freedom of peaceful assembly. Rejection of Western Governments’ repression of peaceful demonstrations denouncing Israel’s aggression against the Gaza Strip, was one of the most prominent topics covered in the two reports.

Both rapporteurs called for the need to protect solidarity movements with the Palestinian people and guarantee their freedom of expression and protect Palestinian activists, journalists, and human rights defenders around the world from attempts to slander them for their solidarity with the Palestinian cause.