The UN Human Rights Committee has slammed Israel for violating the rights of Palestinians and the maltreatment of Palestinian prisoners.
The committee published conclusions on Thursday from its review earlier this month of the Israeli regime’s human rights record.
The report expressed grief over Israel’s continued destruction of Palestinian houses in the occupied West Bank, censuring the ongoing “confiscation and expropriation of Palestinian land and restrictions on access of Palestinians” in the occupied territories including East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
The committee also condemned reports on the use of torture by Israeli prison authorities and maltreatment of Palestinians, including children, in Israeli detention facilities.
Elsewhere it expressed concern over human rights abuses committed during three Israeli wars on the besieged Gaza Strip since late 2008, including the latest military aggression of summer 2014 that left nearly 2,200 Palestinians dead.
The Geneva-based committee emphasized in its conclusions that Israel should make sure that all human rights violations carried out during “its military operations in the Gaza Strip in 2008-2009, 2012 and 2014 are thoroughly, effectively, independently and impartially investigated.”
The perpetrators must be prosecuted and the victims and their families must receive effective remedies, the report stated.
The UN committee slammed Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza, saying the siege continues to “negatively impact Palestinians’ access to all basic and life-saving services such as food, health, electricity, water and sanitation.”
The Gaza Strip has been under the Israeli blockade since June 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standards of living and poverty in the Palestinian territory.
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Source : Press TV
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